Rick Troth wrote:
As an example, the 1B0 disk is bootable and has three partitions: /boot, /usr, and /opt. (The DASD driver only supports up to three partitions. The boot disk must be partitioned to save room for the IPL text in the first track.) The 1B1 disk a copy of MAINT 1B1, with the root partition and maybe /var if you choose to split it out. Come time for the reconciliation (after patching), you'll want to LINK MAINT 1B1 to some available address on the "clients" and copy any changed files. This may sound like trouble, but it's not so bad. (And below I'll discuss read-only root which is even mo betta!)
The IPL disk doesn't have to be one that you actually use in your Linux system after booting; when I installed Linux under Hercules I recall booting from a virtual tape. If you create an initial ram disk with all your modules in it, then you don't need either /boot or /lib/modules. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
