Mark Preston wrote: > K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
[KSB] <...snip...> > Hi K.S. Bhasker, > I couldn't help wondering, having read the above, why you need to create > a database in the manner you describe? > IIRC the commands you mention such as "mount /mnt/sda1" relate to > earlier Knoppix versions than 4.02. The /mnt directory is mostly empty > in recent Knoppix versions and a USB flash drive will appear under the > /media directory. > Knoppix moved to the UnionFS system when version 3.8 was introduced. > "UnionFS transparently mounts a portion of the systems's RAM (/ramdisk) > on top of / (root of the knoppix CD filesystem). This enables the user > to do things that were practically impossible such as using apt-get to > update the apt DB and install software. And note that apt-get stores the > downloaded .deb archive files in /var/cache/apt/archive." > See > http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17570 > I haven't used Knoppix for a while, so I might be mistaken. Best of luck > with your project. [KSB] Thanks for the encouragement, Mark. I tried it with a hard drive partition, and it was mapped to /mnt/sda2 in /etc/fstab. I will try it with a USB partition. The reason not to use UnionFS is to allow changes to the database to be persistent. Regards -- Bhaskar
