Per Erik Stendahl wrote:
>
> Nah, that looks too easy! ;-)
>
> > This might save everyone some pain:
> > from hdparm(8) man page (mine has some format
> > bugs, but you get the picture)
> >
> Is it true that the root fs is left mounted read-only? What is the
> rationale behind this? It seems to
> > What I do know now is how to make the kernel not lock the
> CD in the
> > first place. Simply ioctl(/dev/cdrom,
> CDROM_CLEAR_OPTIONS, CDO_LOCK)
>
> > from /linuxrc in the initrd. This way I can remove the CD anytime
> > I please which is enough for me. And I dont have to patch the
David Balazic wrote:
Per Erik Stendahl wrote :
> What I do know now is how to make the kernel not lock the CD in the
> first place. Simply ioctl(/dev/cdrom, CDROM_CLEAR_OPTIONS, CDO_LOCK)
> from /linuxrc in the initrd. This way I can remove the CD anytime
> I please which is enough f
Per Erik Stendahl wrote :
> What I do know now is how to make the kernel not lock the CD in the
> first place. Simply ioctl(/dev/cdrom, CDROM_CLEAR_OPTIONS, CDO_LOCK)
> from /linuxrc in the initrd. This way I can remove the CD anytime
> I please which is enough for me. And I dont have to patch th
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Hello James , Yup that works alright . But the difficulty
> Per & I were talking about is after the system (such as
> slackware's live-fs) is -shutdown- the CD drive bay is still
> locked , One has to hard-reset (o
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Per Erik Stendahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mounting a ramdisk for / is doable (I think) but kludgy since you have
>to symlink or mount so many subdirectories. Right now I only have /var
>in a ramdisk (and why _WHY_ is /etc/mtab located in /etc and not
>in /var??
Hello Per , Yah I can understand high volume lists ;-)
But combined with the dropping of a copy of the iso-image
you create , A Howto ??? Please . Tia , JimL
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Per Erik Stendahl wrote:
> Oops, I almost missed this one. High-volume mailinglists... :-
Oops, I almost missed this one. High-volume mailinglists... :-)
> > Hello Per , Has anyone gotten back to you on this subject ?
> > I as well am very interested in any information about releiving
> > this difficulty . Tia , JimL
> >
> Such a CD would be very nice; one or two peopl
Hello James , Yup that works alright . But the difficulty
Per & I were talking about is after the system (such as
slackware's live-fs) is -shutdown- the CD drive bay is still
locked , One has to hard-reset (or even power off for some)
before the bay will
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Hello Per , Has anyone gotten back to you on this subject ?
> I as well am very interested in any information about releiving
> this difficulty . Tia , JimL
Such a CD would be very nice; one or two people do have this a
Hello Per , Has anyone gotten back to you on this subject ?
I as well am very interested in any information about releiving
this difficulty . Tia , JimL
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Per Erik Stendahl wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm putting together a maintenance/rescue CD. It's bootable wi
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