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APNew

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New development branch for Bioinformatix

We've wiped the drives and are starting entirely from scratch without any baggage.. hopefully..

HDD partitions now look like this 

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| hda1 (host, 5GB) | hda2 (operational, 5GB) | hda3 (spare, 5GB) | hda4 (extended w/swap) |
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Base install size: 2GB

Now, we're logging into hda1 (only option on boot), and doing the work on hda2 (using the chroot method), therefore minimising the chances that we'll leave unneccessary traces on hda2

Therefore, if anyone wants to do work on the remaster on hda2, please login to hda1 via the usual method, getting the IP as the usual page, then chroot'ing into hda2. The command is:

# chroot /mnt/hda2 /bin/bash

Changelog

02 Aug 2006 (and up to here)

  • Now using kernel 2.6.17.7
    • Same config as before
  • Default user is now 'apbioknoppix'
  • Apache is up with DOCROOT as /home/apbioknoppix/public_html
    • ~/public_html has been put into /etc/skel
  • Using /usr/local/src on hda1 as source install download/building/staging area before transferring to hda2
  • Installed checkinstall on hda1
    • Will use that to build packages that hopefully can be directly installed into hda2
  • cloop and unionFS
    • Downloaded cloop and unionFS sources from here
    • cloop
      • Built cloop using make KERNEL_DIR=/media/hda2/usr/src/linux-2.6.17.7 as we need to point make to the kernel sources currently on hda2
    • unionfs
      • Installed uuid-dev on hda1
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