On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote: > BlankNeed help and advice. > > I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done > two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was > going on - I mostly accepted the defaults. > > This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power losses. > So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about 100MB), and make > it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no corruption on > constant reboots. The apps, logs etc will be on a separate partition. The > read-only partition idea was a suggestion from a Linux guru, as a solution > for inodes etc being corrupted and the system not booting properly. > > I tried the Debian installer, but it fails, and I am pretty sure that is > because the root partition is small. Is there any way to tell the > installer where to put which files? I am installing from a DVD containing > Sarge. > > Any suggestions will be welcome. Also, any advice on the read only root > partition will be helpful. > > Thanx, > Anil Gupte
I have a large number of small systems running a stripped down version of Debian, and they are all build using ext3. That way unless there is a really serious corruption they journal is replayed when the system reboots and it comes up cleanly. Many of these systems are in remote locations and I can count on one hand the number of times over a period of 2 and a half years when they have not come up automatically. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]