Mail from ILUG-BOM list (Non-Digest Mode) If you think you can be a resource person for training programs of our LUG, attend meeting on 19th Nov. at 4pm at HBCSE. _______________________________________________ Sometime Today, [EMAIL PROTECTED] assembled some asciibets to say: > 1. BIOS passes control to LiLo. > 2. LiLo brings up the kernel. > 3. Kernel searches for /bin/init OR /sbin/init > OR /etc/init OR /bin/sh and brings it up. I'm not sure if it will bring up /bin/sh before it finds init, but if you say it does, then maybe it does. > If this is right, I have removed everything else from my system and > just left the kernel and a small program (cpuinfo) in /bin and named > it sh. If instead of putting in the "cpuinfo" prog, I put in a small > editor (nano) and create files, will they be saved OR will the system > be in read-only mode? Who's gonna mount your drive? You have to have the mount program installed, as well as fstab and mtab in your /etc directories (or wherever else you want). The kernel will mount your root filesystem read only, unless you mention otherwise in /etc/lilo.conf Frankly, I don't advise you to change it to read-write, because a lot of nasty things could happen during boot up, and you don't really want your file system writable at that time. My advice is to have the init program take over. Let it call mount to mount your filesystem read-write. Also, keep the syslogd and klogd programs to log all messages. You'll want to check them if things go wrong. Maybe have critical messages mailed to you as well (you can figure out how to hack the syslogd. it uses unix domain sockets) You also need your keymap (unless you're using a very standard 101 key keyboard) I'm guessing you might also want the pppd and gpm (if you have a mouse). Other than that, you'll only need applications that you use. If all you want is to run nano, then just make your file system writable with mount. Philip PS: You can mail me offlist. -- "Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards." -- Soren F. Petersen Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ _______________________________________________ Next Meet on 10th Dec 2000 at HBCSE Website: http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ Ftp site: ftp.ilug-bom.org.in Linuxers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers CHAT: irc.ilug-bom.org.in
