Re: [PD] starting automatically read only (Ubuntu 10.04)

2010-06-14 Thread Dan Wilcox
On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:21 AM, András Murányi wrote: I suppose basically everything in /etc/int.d goes off before anything (normally) happens to your home directory. Andras The newer Ubuntu's are using Upstart, so things should go in /etc/event.d:

Re: [PD] starting automatically read only (Ubuntu 10.04)

2010-06-13 Thread András Murányi
Well, this is beyond my current knowledge... but basically /etc/init.d is where you make things happen at startup, and with the numbers leading filenames there (take a look...) you can have control when your script will be executed. I'd suggest take a look into those scripts and try to insert your

Re: [PD] starting automatically read only (Ubuntu 10.04)

2010-06-12 Thread Ingo Scherzinger
Hi Andreas, Sounds like a good idea to put the entire /home/user folder into a tmpfs but I have no idea how to get my data copied into this tmpfs prior to the system wanting to use it. Any idea? Ingo On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Ingo Scherzinger i...@miamiwave.comwrote: If the file's

Re: [PD] starting automatically read only (Ubuntu 10.04)

2010-06-11 Thread Ingo Scherzinger
If the file's contents have to be preserved between sessions, it's breaking the read only system paradigm. (You may still be able to use an usb drive for this purpose?) It's actually working fine writing edited data to the rw sda3 partition where some folders have been linked to. If the file can

Re: [PD] starting automatically read only (Ubuntu 10.04)

2010-06-11 Thread András Murányi
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Ingo Scherzinger i...@miamiwave.comwrote: If the file's contents have to be preserved between sessions, it's breaking the read only system paradigm. (You may still be able to use an usb drive for this purpose?) It's actually working fine writing edited

[PD] starting automatically read only (Ubuntu 10.04)

2010-06-10 Thread Ingo Scherzinger
Hi there, with the help of Dan Wilcox I got pretty close to start my system read only however I'm still getting a nasty nagscreen which I have to click away while starting up. I really need this machine to start up automatically with a read only filesystem. The error is pretty much known in the

Re: [PD] starting automatically read only (Ubuntu 10.04)

2010-06-10 Thread András Murányi
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Ingo Scherzinger i...@miamiwave.comwrote: Hi there, with the help of Dan Wilcox I got pretty close to start my system read only however I'm still getting a nasty nagscreen which I have to click away while starting up. I really need this machine to start up