Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:05:47 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DISKLESS does not work any more since update Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105140902200.1996-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20010513191912.B6619@vger.bsdhome.com>
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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
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