From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 20 12:35:16 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA07204 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:35:16 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA07198 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:35:11 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA06554; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:32:28 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504201932.MAA06554@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: 950412-SNAP To: chain@mpd.tandem.com (Chain Lee) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, chain%muzak.mpd.tandem.com@mpd.tandem.com In-Reply-To: <9504201906.AA08080@muzak> from "Chain Lee" at Apr 20, 95 02:06:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1030 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hello, > > First let me thank you (in case I forget :-) for the great work > you've accomplished! > > I have a few comments/questions regarding diskless and kernel debug > support in this snapshot. > > When running a diskless station using nfs shared /usr, /usr needs > to be mounted very earlier on in /etc/rc and /etc/netstart. In the > current scripts, "mount -a -t nfs" is started after system daemons > which require /usr to be mounted, and therefore the system fails > to start. The mount command may need to be moved into middle of > /etc/netstart where network has been set up but before starting > any network daemons. Could you please pick up /usr/src/etc/{rc, netstart, sysconfig} and /usr/src/etc/etc.i386/rc.i386 from -current and try them out. I need some more feedback on these versions. I believe your above problems have been addressed in them. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD