E.2. Exploring the CD Contents

If you boot the Laddie appliance and then explore the root filesystem from a Linux shell, you'll find that most of the top-level directories exist in the ramdisk, and only the /bin, /lib, /sbin, and /usr directories are linked back to the CD. In particular, all the directories related to the Laddie appliance are read-write, so you can use the CD to experiment with, rebuild, and reinstall the appliance.

E.2.1. Laddie Appliance Source Code

The Laddie Appliance software is provided in /Code/src and is partitioned into packages corresponding to the various user interfaces and services. The binaries and related files are installed in /opt/laddie. Table E-1 identifies the source and install directories for each of the Laddie ...

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