From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 29 14:46:28 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA07171 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 14:46:28 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA07154; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 14:46:15 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02132; Thu, 29 Dec 94 16:43:13 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9412292243.AA02132@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: It's time to release.. The worms! Hahahahaha! To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 16:43:12 -0600 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9412292126.AA09243@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Dec 29, 94 03:26:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1374 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I tried putting 2.0 on a machine with 40meg. 25 meg /, 15 meg swap, and /usr > over nfs. Confused me to death why it would boot right until I really looked > hard at /etc/rc. > > nfs mounts are not done until after several programs in /usr are run. I had > to mount /usr specifically before then. It only works because I have a default > router. I don't expect the this configuration to be supported by default but > it might be a nice addition to the gotcha file. > > excerpt.... > # set hostname, turn on network > echo 'starting network' > . /etc/netstart > > # grab user <------------------------ > echo 'mounting /usr' #<------------------------ > > mount -a -t nfs >/dev/null 2>&1 #<------------------------ Hi Boyd, I've been doing this since 1.0 by putting the few files needed in the local /usr, and then just mounting over them. I believe in 2.0 I discovered it was easier to modify /etc/rc and just stick mount -u -o rw / umount -a >/dev/null 2>&1 mount -a -t nonfs mount /usr <------------- in. Saves time and effort. :-) Anyone want to suggest a way to make the "mount -a -t nonfs" do this? ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847