Re: Running with a readonly root partition

2008-06-13 Thread Mister Olli
hi... do you have some kind of installation/setup manual? that would be really interesting to see your steps, and try that myself. I have some questions too: - how do you handle updates/ installation of new software? - how do you prevent someone who hacked the machine to remount '/' as

Re: Running with a readonly root partition

2008-06-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As devfs is running by default, it seems to me that it would be relatively easy to run with a readonly root partition, assuming that the directories under which writing is necessary (ie; /tmp, /var, /home) are located in separate, writable partitions. yes. The main advantages are that none

Re: Running with a readonly root partition

2008-06-13 Thread Andrew Wright
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Mister Olli wrote: do you have some kind of installation/setup manual? that would be really interesting to see your steps, and try that myself. There aren't very many steps: - install as per normal, but with the following on separate partitions: /,