From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 1 6:54:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3091337B718 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 06:54:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14jiJK-0007LY-00; Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:54:30 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 14jiJJ-0000PA-00; Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:54:29 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: Matt Dillon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.diskless{1,2} files In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:53:25 -0800 (PST) . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:54:29 +0200 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200103302253.f2UMrPY05575@earth.backplane.com>you write: } }:> }:> On Mar 30, Falco Krepel wrote: }:> > I have implemented good ideas from Mike Smith in my }:> > rc.diskless{1,2} files and make some other changes: [...] } P.S. To anyone who wants to cleanup the rc.diskless files, } please be my guest! I wrote them originally and they worked } 'ok', but then some people mangled them and ever since they } haven't worked right. I don't have time to clean them up } myself. They could use a complete rewriting, IMHO. } it would be too presumptios of me to try and clean up, specialy since im runing -stable, but since im planing on running many 'dataless' workstations i've been fiddling around with several ideas. 1- i want more than one root-file server. 2- i want the management of the ws to be as centralized as possible 3- not all ws are the same. so, im willing to spend time/resources. i've modified (slightly) libstand/bootp.c but haven't received any feedback, (maybe because there isn't any documentation? :-) btw, whatever happend to the big rc change (ala sys5/linux)? danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message