[Peeweelinux] Saving ramdisk changes
Ken Emmons, Jr.
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Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:33:13 -0500
Linking lilo.conf and writing a C program that changes the IP and writes it to the file, then run LILO will probably work. All you would need is to then include the LILO package and your custom C code.
~Ken
>>> Leif Steinhour <[email protected]> 03/25 4:41 PM >>>
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 <[email protected]> 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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