Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:00:42 -0600 From: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Neal Nelson <neal@nelsonnet.org> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Discless 5.1 Message-ID: <16197.16650.310906.293084@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <F1048B2C-D3D5-11D7-88F9-000393A6E2B0@nelsonnet.org> References: <F1048B2C-D3D5-11D7-88F9-000393A6E2B0@nelsonnet.org>
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Neal Nelson wrote at 14:49 +0200 on Aug 21: > I've been using FreeBSD-Stable for some time on my CompactFlash based > firewall. I was thinking of moving to FreeBSD-5.1 but the rc system has > changed. Does anyone know how to set up a discless 5.12 system like > using rc.diskless2 on -stable? Here's a hack that worked okay for me (creates and populates a /var memory file sys at boot)... - on the compact flash, cp etc/rc.d/diskless etc/rc.d/diskless2 - Add 'dlv=1' after the 'dlv=`sysctl ...' line The existing diskless rc scripts in 5.x are geared toward nfs diskless clients. I have yet to look in detail at creating an rc script that is tailored for a read-only / & /usr that are local (e.g., on the compact flash), but the above got me running. > As an aside: does anyone know if it's possible to compile a 5.1 world > on -stable? Mine seems to fail and I don't want to upgrade my server > until 5 goes stable. Building yesterday's -current on 4.8 worked okay for me.
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