From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 14 0: 6: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA33237B424 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 00:05:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Received: from klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4E75ln02014; Mon, 14 May 2001 09:05:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:05:47 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." To: Brian Dean Cc: Subject: Re: DISKLESS does not work any more since update In-Reply-To: <20010513191912.B6619@vger.bsdhome.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 May 2001, Brian Dean wrote: All right, I realized that last night ... Thanks a lot for your response. But why "two" times /etc? I deleted /etc in the diskless root, thought I need only one of them - but that was not true. I see that a lot of memory is consumpted by mounting several directories into it via mfs. How about saving memory? Well, now all terminals work well although they take longer to bootstrap. Oliver :>On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: :> :>> I switched back to the old rc.diskless-files and all things run all :>> right. the problem seems to be MFS realted: the diskless system :>> tries to do something in /var and so on but it cannot perform its :>> task do a read only system. What happened? :> :>Yes, some changes were made. You now need to fully populate :>/conf/default/etc with a copy of /etc. That should be the only thing :>that should be required after mergemastering, everything else should :>be backward compatible. :> :>If after you do that it still does not work, please send me a detailed :>failure report. :> :>Thanks, :>-Brian :>-- :>Brian Dean :>bsd@FreeBSD.org :>bsd@bsdhome.com :> -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message