paf@nada.kth.se (Patrik F{ltstr|m) (10/05/90)
This is a copy of an article I posted to some other news-groups on the Internet. But after that I got an hint from a friend that it really was a newsgroup for A/UX. So, if you already have had this discussion in the meeting, please do excuse, and forward the solution to me. With regards, Patrik ---------------- I have an idea of minimizing the root-partition on A/UX 2.0 to give possibilities for ordinary users to have local root and swap on their 80MB HDSC without missing the whole Mac partition. Therefore I am trying to move as many files as possible from /bin and /etc to /usr/bin and /usr/etc, but where to stop? There is also a big /Mac directory... Is really all that necessary for a A/UX boot? I am trying to trace all programs used in the startup-scripts (starting by tracing /etc/inittab) and move all others to /usr and create soft links. My idea is also to mount /usr using NFS from a larger mashine, just after mounting /, so I'm prepared to ALWAYS need a connection to that NFS server. I also know that I must have that server in single-user mode too! The only target is to really minimize the root on a local disk. I'm also prepared to rewrite some of the scripts, i.e. assuming you have a perfect /etc/HOSTID etc (no configuration errors allowed!). Before digging deeper into the jungle of scripts run when booting (just think of /etc/startup.d/* or what the name of the files was) I want to ask if sameone else have tried this? I want to run NFS, DNS, Yellow Pa..(Oops ;-) NIS, sendmail etc, so there must be a proper initialation of all devices. Patrik Faltstrom <paf@nada.kth.se> Royal Institute of Technology, NADA Stockholm, Sweden