On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote: > > BlankNeed help and advice. > > > > I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done > > two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was > > going on - I mostly accepted the defaults. > > > > This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power losses. > > So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about 100MB), and make > > it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no corruption on > > constant reboots. The apps, logs etc will be on a separate partition. The > > read-only partition idea was a suggestion from a Linux guru, as a solution > > for inodes etc being corrupted and the system not booting properly. > > > > I tried the Debian installer, but it fails, and I am pretty sure that is > > because the root partition is small. Is there any way to tell the > > installer where to put which files? I am installing from a DVD containing > > Sarge. > > > > Any suggestions will be welcome. Also, any advice on the read only root > > partition will be helpful. > > > > Thanx, > > Anil Gupte > > I have a large number of small systems running a stripped down version of > Debian, and they are all build using ext3. That way unless there is a > really serious corruption they journal is replayed when the system reboots > and it comes up cleanly. Many of these systems are in remote locations > and I can count on one hand the number of times over a period of 2 and a half > years when they have not come up automatically. > > David > > I'm running a full Sarge installation that has recovered cleanly from about six power losses.
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