[GNUz] Voyage setup part2: read-only

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 23 May 2006 15:01:51 +1200
Rik Tindall wrote:

> So far so semi-good.
> 
> I'll persevere with the untarred install until I strike a definate 
> reason not to. E.g. pcmcia is included by default; probably every driver 
> has been, and I'm not limited by space (5GB) so don't need a tight 
> install to learn on.
> 
> But I'm still mastering the writeable options & resorting to external 
> mounting to get at e.g. /etc/resolv.conf (symlink to /ro) to permanently 
> add working DNS. (I can ping SNAP's but not Xtra's whom I'm connected 
> to!?!) I'm looking through /etc/dnsmasq.conf - correct?


everything is writable after remountrw

about the only config file that needs changing is
/etc/network/interfaces

and if you want to change the dnsmasq config I suggest you do it in the
dnsmasq.more.conf file



> 
> Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:09:26 +1200
> > Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > 
> >>...I'd be a bit careful with this in a multi-boot environment, and rtfm *very* carefully first, or it may dump lilo all over the mbr when you least want it to...
> > 
> > Thats why i suggested commenting out the lilo invocation :-)
> 
> If I never have to look at Lilo again in my life, it's a good thing imho!
> 
> Cheers,
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