Thread: iT/OS 2006 - Implications for 'extrootfs'
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2006-05-22 , 08:28
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Originally Posted by beaulieu
can you do set-up the MMC card from a computer running windows ,

it seems to be that you need Linux, which I do not have...
Yes, you do - on the 770 itself. After faffing around with Mac OS X and VMware and Ubuntu through a dodgy card reader, I settled on using cfdisk on the 770 itself: job was done in 5 minutes :-)

Originally Posted by neiljerram
I'm afraid I still don't get the detail of this. I assume that when the 770 boots, the root filesystem is mounted as ext3 (or similar) on /. Then later, what we want is for the union as a whole to be mounted on /, and the old root filesystem to be one of the constituents of the union. So I'm curious about exactly how this is achieved, because my guess is that "mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/ unionfs /" would not work (because of recursion).
You only define unions for locations you want, so I have unions for:
  1. /home/user
  2. /var/lib/install
  3. /var/lib/gconf
  4. /usr/share/themes
  5. /etc/others-menu

As you say, unionising / itself could lead to interesting effects (but I assume unionfs would not recurse into itself).

[Doctor Who]Really? And I'm using your preset encoder to watch series 1 again on the tube :-)
Cool. I thought Christopher Ecclestone was great, but David Tennant's even better, IMHO...

What line? I've not yet seen another 770 when I'm on the tube, so I'll keep an eye out ;-)

Cheers,

Andrew
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