evoltech
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12 years ago One of the main issues I remember with the client configuration of the automation of persistent storage on USB. Here are some notes I have from the last time I worked on this:
- See if we can get a sollution up and working for the persistent storage
- The idea is supposed to be that casper when it gets going will start looking for a partition with a filesystem on it that has the label 'casper-rw'. This is done by the casper scripts in the livesystem initrd scripts/casper:setup_unionfs in find_cow_device ... maybe because the peristent option is not set.
- How did we set the boot options then: from the customize_iso script via the isolinux.cfg
- What is the order of uck-remaster scripts? http://code.google.com/p/digeks/wiki/uck
- How do I test the casper script? How do I get the new initrd.lz in there? Mount the iso, unpack it (ie copy its contents to the FS, couldn't we do this step inline?), uck-remaster-unpack-initrd, modify the casper file, uck-remaster-pack-initrs
- but still the casper-rw parition is not getting seen or mounted and the helper, find_cow_device, is not debugging anything. Even after I moved it from casper-helpers to casper.
- The whole system borfs when I manually set it to /dev/sda1
- a shell in initramfs showed that sda1 was not even up. Not sure why
- who are the casper maintainers?
There needs to be an alpha release that has the following base functionality (most of this is already done):
Once we get an alpha release we can work on other issues. The process of working on this will likely create other issues.