[Peeweelinux] Saving ramdisk changes

[Leif Steinhour]

One hack I have used in the past for this sort of problem has been to link 
the conf file to a file on a volume they can edit. Keep in mind that this 
introduces a major security vulnerability, I really think you're asking 
for trouble having the users mess around with lilo.conf. I'm wondering if 
there isn't some way to set up a DHCP style relay to handle the IP 
mappings?

On 2003.03.25 12:39 Stephen Lee wrote:
> I would like the user on the thin client box to be able to make
> adjustments to lilo.conf have them stick. The boxes call nfsroot mount
> from lilo to connect to the server. Unfortunately the nfs server IP
> needs to be hard coded into the kernel boot parameter specified in
> lilo.conf thus if the nfs server ip changes, the user needs to adjust
> the value in lilo.conf.
> 
> Stephen
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:19, Ken Emmons, Jr. wrote:
> > you can try out changes using RAMDISK on the target machine, but you
> will loose them on reboot.
> >
> > If you want to keep something, put it in the "custom" directory within
> your project. If there doesn't exist one, simply make one. The root of
> the directory "custom" gets copied over the root filesystem, so if you
> have an entry named etc/passwd in your cusotm file, it will get copied to
> /etc on your target.
> >
> > As far as lilo.conf, this is generated by ./pwlconfig, so you will have
> to let us know a little more about what you are trying to do. If you
> ismply want to append a string to the kernel boot, you can do that in the
> target config in ./pwlconfig.
> >
> > ~Ken
> >
> > >>> Stephen Lee <splee@plexio.com> 03/25 1:31 PM >>>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do I go about saving changes made within PWL? For example, I made
> > changes to lilo.conf in PWL (on the target box) and would like to
> commit
> > them to the DOC. Is there such a script?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> >
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