hi craig,
i'm the last person who should be responding to your email, but i think
that i'm comfortable with this aspect.
the cd puts the root fs -- config files, executables and all -- into
memory. of course, the config files will be all wrong. but that's ok
for now.
configure the system using lrcfg.
to make your changes permanent, you need to save "parts" of the root
filesystem to disk. for instance, if you modify /etc/hostname, you need
to back up etc.lrp to floppy. the "X.lrp" files appear to be tar.gz
files. to backup the "parts", go to lrp and hit "b". greg morgan just
posted a really good email to this list about partial backups that you
will want to read.
then, after the system boots the cd's filesystem into memory, it looks
for the "X.lrp" files on the floppy and untars them over what's in
memory. this is how your changes get applied to the filesystem. i
think "linuxrc" is what does this.
sometimes it's tricky to figure out what you need to backup. it took me
almost an hour to figure out that /etc/modules gets backed up by backing
up modules.lrp, not etc.lrp.
if you're as newbieish as me, the configure process goes something like
this:
while (! lrp_is_configured)
{
make_backup_of_lrp_floppy_using_dd();
make_small_change_using lrcfg();
backup_the_small_change();
lrp_is_configure = reboot_firewall();
}
btw, there's a highly excellent tutorial on high capacity formatted
floppies on the c0wz site. it was a very informative read.
pete
begin Craig Caughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi folks,
> I'm fairly new to Linux...so please bear with me : )
> Here's how I understand the process for the Dachstein CD, please correct me where
>I'm wrong. 1.) Download the CD .iso image and burn your cd with your favorite CD
>writing software (Nero, Adaptec, etc.). 2.) Boot from the CD to start Dachstein and
>load into memory. Since you'll need to (likely)or simply want to make some changes
>(different NIC's, etc.), the menu gives you an option to back-up your changes to a
>floppy??? is that right??? 3.) How do you get the changes that you've saved on your
>floppy on a CD??? That's where I'm really confused. Thank you very much!
>
> Happy New Year
> Craig
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