[newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage

2002-01-28 Thread Joe L. Casale
I would like to make a few terminals, and these will only be used for running Rdesktop. I wanna be able to mount the root as RO and what ever else is required so even if the user turns the power off, the install would not be affected, nor run fsck at bootup. Can anyone advise on all the

RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage

2002-01-28 Thread Joe L. Casale
Well, what I am actually after is a single floppy with a slim FB kernel (ip, and video mode hard coded) nano-X, and rwin. I am a complete win2k/XP enviro, so I don't have NFS. This is a temp solution till I figure out how to make the floppy! I forgot about about tmp...If I mount my root as RO, I

RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage

2002-01-28 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Is there any reason why the workstations have to be runing under slim kernel and nano-X. I think there are packages out there which allow an X desktop ontop of Windows - all of the processing is done on the servers - the client just displays the X desktop environment. If you don't need X, you