On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:43:06 Robert Connolly wrote: > I would like packages in /tools to use /tools exclusively, so no > symbolic links from /tools/bin to /bin are needed to boot. CLFS does > not do this... they install some packages to /mnt/clfs/, so this might > be a problem if the boot scripts use full path names for /sbin/udevd > (for example). > > It would be usefull if this temporary system reboot is compatible with > a cdrom boot, with a read-only file system, but it's not necessary > right away. I would like this even when booting from writable media, > because it sets a good example for minimizing privileges. If I remember > correctly, from the readonly_rootfs, glibc can be configured to use a > different path for /etc/mtab, so that /etc can be read-only, or a > symbolic link might work.
I don't have enough time to build HLFS myself, but if you could send me pre-compiled /tools, I would gladly make it boot. Just put it on some FTP, please. Jan Dvorak -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
