Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/28/2009 at 9:04 PM, Richard Troth wrote: -snip- > We had to assume that every step had to be walked > through, and the distributors don't specifically support this idea > (yet). Yes and no. While it's not an officially supported configuration, the release notes for SLES10 document ho

Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Argentina > Mail.: vitel...@ar.ibm.com > Phone.: 54 11 4898-4898 int. 3485 > Fax 54 11 4898-4700 > > > > > From: > Scott Rohling > To: > LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: > 01/28/2009 10:28 PM > Subject: > Re:

Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Richard Troth
It's really no where near as complicated as expressed in the RedPaper if you can simply intercept the usual 'rootfsck' and replace it. Then commit to having a set of "service" disks which can be flipped into R/W mode. (Then apply service, whether RH or SuSE.) The RedPaper goes into excruciating

Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Hugo Luis Vitelli
? - Martinez ? Pcia Bs. As. - Argentina Mail.: vitel...@ar.ibm.com Phone.: 54 11 4898-4898 int. 3485 Fax 54 11 4898-4700 From: Scott Rohling To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 01/28/2009 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks Sent by

Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Hugo -- Check out: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4322.html?Open This talks about sharing filesystems (read only root) and should provide you some valuable help and ideas.. Scott On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Hugo Luis Vitelli wrote: > Hello list ... > Since you have more experi

Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Hugo Luis Vitelli
Hello list ... Since you have more experience would like to see ... by installing Linux - because we want to make it Read Only disks, such as the filesystem that are not modified and the Read Write to the modification ... Read Only minidisks we create and are accessed by other machines and only