WIKI, UNIONFS and varmfs

Hi,

Dario - all right, I' ll try to manage to get the Wiki current as soon
as I have the feeling I understood some things! Nevertheless I have more
questions..

To explain it- this is the first time I am creating a live CD- so
knowing that I should have cloop-tools installed and that I should have
added the GEOM_UZIP options to the kernel was new to me! So- perhaps I
am the perfect guinea pig to test the fool-proofness of the FreeSBIE
installation kit in that I won't miss a single tarpit to step into...

_Question_: These are two fundamental problems I encounter

Now that I am able to create my vanilla installation of FreeSBIE (5.4
that is)- can I use UNIONFS? I tried to compile it in (option was
missing in the kernel config file)

Another thing is: I use the customroot to write a complete PostgreSQL
database to /var/pgsql and also to take my Zope installation (including
Products and the database) and dump the whole thing onto /var/Zope.
After waiting a loong time I boot for the first time and every single
time until now /var was utterly different from what I expected. It
contains none of the directories that I have copied to it (and I
double-checked on $FREESBIE-CLONE/var. Why is that? Where does it go
during mkisofs? And it makes no difference whether or not I use the
EXTRA varmfs or not. It just gets overwritten. Why? How can I get my
stuff there? And how do I make it readable?

Thanks a lot for your help in advance- the more I get into it, the more
FreeSBIE sucks me in..! wonderful toy to play with!

Tilmann


   

Dipl. Geol. MSc Tilmann Steinmetz
Von-Seckendorff-Platz 3
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mail: tilmann.steinmetz at geo.uni-halle.de
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