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ldrolez

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Cacko: How To Install Altboot ?
« on: August 31, 2006, 03:47:59 am »
Hi !
I'd like to install 'altboot' in my cacko 1.23, to allow
booting from SD or CF, but I can't because /sbin is read
only...

Is there a trick to modify the files in /sbin ?
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Cacko: How To Install Altboot ?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2006, 10:34:41 pm »
Yep, the trick is to remount / read-write.

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mount -o remount,rw / will do the trick

Once you reboot it will go back to read-only

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Cacko: How To Install Altboot ?
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2006, 08:38:16 am »
thanks for the hint !
Anyway it does not seem easy to install altboot in cacko:
1- wc, tr are in /usr instead of /bin, but /usr is not mounted :-(
2- altboot cannot find /etc/altboot-*.conf because /etc seems to be overwritten

For 1, I can copy the missing binaries, but how much space left is there
on / ?
And for 2, how can I access the original /etc, before it gets replaced
by a link to /home/etc ??

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« Last Edit: September 01, 2006, 08:39:08 am by ldrolez »
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