From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 3 21:46:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA28472 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28460 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id FAA12471; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 05:40:58 +0100 (BST) To: Terry Lambert cc: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, tom@sdf.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, root@friday.keanesea.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: What is the best way to setup a drive In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jul 1996 21:01:44 PDT." <199607040401.VAA12261@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 05:40:55 +0100 Message-ID: <12468.836455255@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote in message ID <199607040401.VAA12261@phaeton.artisoft.com>: > The "/etc" directory is not allowed to be other than on the root file > system, by definition. That resolves the symlink problem. Umm? What was being talked about (if you remember) was having a read-only root filesystem. Then someone pointed out that that'd stop you changing passwords, so then a symlink from /etc to a read-write FS was suggested ... Which makes me wonder where your FS ``improvements'' fit in? They don't solve the problem of how to figure out where to get the /etc directory from. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info