Quoting Jeff Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> - Where do the swap partition, and the /tmp directory reside physically?
> I can imagine it would be in the local FS, but considering how do you
> configure it? swap turned off?
To answer this question, let me explain,
HOW ADMULINUXGO WORKS
It is a 10MB ramdisk system (4MB files, 6MB free space). It is
recommended that you have at least 32MB ram so that with 10MB ramdisk
you still have about 22 MB usable system ram. Initrd contains only
the minimal files needed for boot up (/bin/bash, /sbin/init, /sbin/rc,
/lib/libc.so, /lib/libtermcap.so, etc.). The rest of the executables
and libraries are mounted from the CD (/usr, /opt, etc.).
When you first login, you will be asked three questions to configure
X, which set values for /dev/mouse, /etc/X11/XF86Config, and
/usr/X11/bin/X. These values are also saved on the first Windows
partition, so that on subsequent boot ups, there is no need to
reconfigure X. I do not know how to make the auto-probe scripts,
and besides even the excellent autoprobe scripts of RH6.2 sometimes
fail, so I decided to just ask the user.
You login as root, since there is no other user, and root account is
not passworded.
Running startx gives you the fvwm2 window manager, since this is small
enough and pretty good looking (for me). You have available netscape,
gs, gv, xwpe, xv, xdvi, xpdf. Xfig will come later. You also have
javac, java, and appletviewer for the java programmer. This Linux
distro is really for my students doing java programming, since java2
on Linux is so much better/stricter than java2 on Win9X.
There is no swap, since the idea is to have a usable system without
installing. When the user finds the need for swap, then he must
mount the Windows partition, then dd/mkswap/swapon a swap file.
Mtools is available so that the user can read/write floppy disks.
/bin, /etc, /dev, /root, /proc, /lib, /mnt, /sbin, /tmp, /var
are all on ramdisk, because they need to be writable or are
needed during bootup, but they contain only a minimal set of files.
The rest of the executables and libraries are in /cdrom/bin, cdrom/sbin,
/cdrom/lib, /usr -> /cdrom/usr and /opt -> /cdrom/opt. Log files and
user-changeable config files are in /var/log or in /etc. For example,
apache is in /cdrom/opt/apache but its logs are in /var/log/apache.
X is in /cdrom/usr/X11R6 but its config files are in /etc/X11.
I got lots of downloadable documentation in html/pdf/ps formats and
included them in the distro, since my students will need all the docs
they can get. Included are the Linux HOWTOs and miniHOWTOS, books
from the LDP, unixhelp-1.2, java2 docs from Sun, Ohio Unix System
Administration, Apache/PHP/PHPlib reference, etc.
You can download AdmuLinuxGo from
ftp://curry.ateneo.net/iso-images/admulinux-1.0/
**PMana**
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