From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 5 23:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2ADD37B69C; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:34:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f167YCf35946; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200102060734.f167YCf35946@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: diskless boot of a PXE-compatible machine : finally done ! In-Reply-To: <3A7F98C9.8EF274A9@free.fr> from Thierry Herbelot at "Feb 6, 2001 7:25:13 am" To: green@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:34:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: rizzo@aciri.org, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, while looking into diskless operation it was noticed that: > early_nfs_mounts was removed with revision 1.209 of rc > () do you remember why that was done ? It was used for diskless operation -- essentially it was needed to mount /usr before things such as "find" and "cpio" were used in the rc* scripts cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message