From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 02:53:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48AE637B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 02:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6570143FE5 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 02:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.physik.uni-mainz.de [134.93.180.162])h2UArR7v020295 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:53:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:53:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030330124502.D20130@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: diskless root-etc and special-etc struggles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:53:31 -0000 Hello. Testing new 5.0-Current stuff for diskless booting I ran into struggle with some kind of misleading hierarchy in how /etc and /conf/default/etc ist treated. I use an environment for diskless systems that has well populated specific i(assuming I am chrooted to the diskless root partition): /conf/base/etc, /conf/default/etc and /conf/MY.IP/etc It works as exspected - but not in all ways. /etc in diskless environment can not be left empty, the startup seems to need rc, rc.subr and both rc.diskless[12] files to get clear to startup. rc.d and the new RCng facility does not work. Am I right to say: we need rc, rc.subr and both rc.diskless1 and 2 for a proper diskless boot? Does this imply that rc.d for diskless does not work? I tried to clean /etc or populated /etc/defaults but that ends up in a dead diskless system. Please, this is only a question. At the moment I feel happy that diskless works again in 5.X and hope it works with RCng soon. Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ Systemadministration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532