On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
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> * Tried to remove EVERYTHING and ANYTHING located
> in root.lrp that required backups: thus, root.lrp
> should be completely static for almost all purposes.
> (if it isn't, I'm not done :)
As a note, on the lazy side of things - since I am, first and foremost, a
lazy SOB <g> - this means that any update to Oxygen's root.lrp can be
simply plugged in to any Oxygen-derived images and BANG, Derivative
updated. That's awfully appealing to me. =)
> > c) a local harddisk is assumed, which the /var directory will be
> > written to.
> > c1) persistence of /var means lrpkg/ needs to move
> > elsewhere.
>
> Why?
I also thought of this after my own reply. You can just set up the system
to mount /dev/xda* as /var/log. It would significantly reduce any issues
with alternate images not being compatible.
> > 2-b) If I'm assuming a CD-ROM and a box with lots of RAM, why not get
> > away from the glibc issue and use a newer Linux as my base? Pros and
> > cons?
>
> I've been thinking about the same for my CDROM off and on. Here are
> some of my ramblings:
>
> * Using a new glibc means you are no longer able to use a floppy
> (probably).
Why? A stripped glibc 2.1.x setup only takes about a hundred to two
hundred kbytes more of disk space; if the only things on the disk are the
root and etc LRPs, then there should be tons of space for it.
> * using a more up-to-date glibc - this is something to seriously
> consider, methinks.
Aye.
> * using Linux 2.4 - this may be worth avoiding for production systems
> right now... but keep watching.
Hopefully, the way Linus is going about things for 2.4.x, the kernel will
be a lot stabler a lot sooner. I can honestly say that I haven't seen any
issues running as a workstation. I agree that servers are a bit touchy
ground, but it seems to be coming along better than 2.2.x did.
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