Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition

[Wayne Dawson <jongalt@pinn.net>]

At 12:57 PM 3/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:08:14AM -0800, Wayne Dawson wrote:
> > Um.  Thanks for the suggestion.  It's what I've been trying to do for
> > several days, and I can't seem to make it work.  There are other things I
> > can try (I haven't looked at initrd for example), but it's not worth
> > spending more time on, unless somebody can give me a short and clear
> > procedure for doing it.
>
> Um, Wayne, there's a point at which asking a LUG mailing list for a
> little help crosses the line to asking other people to do your
> homework for you. You've crossed that line with me, and I don't
> think I'm alone.

Well Gabriel, I quite understand about crossing the line you 
mention.  However, I'm not trying to get people to write a procedure for 
me.  Your quote from me above was in response to someone saying "well, why 
don't you just...", which to me sounded like that person believed it was a 
simple thing to do.

> What you want to do is NOT simple. If it's going to work and be
> maintainable (by YOU) you need to understand far more about the IA32
> boot process than, demonstrably, you do.

You are most definitely correct!  I would love to understand it.  I've been 
trying to understand it.  Perhaps I'll have to go directly to the Linux 
boot code.

If I get this to work, do you suppose my writing a HOWTO would be in order?

> Having us write up a set procedure for how to do this might get you
> through this one time, but it won't get you through any problems you
> may have eventually, and it strikes me as a bit dishonest for your
> cleints (you *did* say you were getting paid to set this up, didn't
> you?).

I don't think I said it, but you're quite right.  Although booting from 
raid is more my own little quest.  The client just wants a system that can 
be recovered in case of possible failure modes.

Thanks for everybody's attempts to help me.  If I get it to work, I'll try 
to write something up and let people know how I did it.

Wayne

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