From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 23:31:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DC537B404; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=danny) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 170GJb-0002Rb-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:31:43 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Robert Watson , David O'Brien , Freebsd Current Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of "Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:17:11 PDT." <3CC5A527.180DB66D@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:31:43 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Robert Watson wrote: > > This would provide full compatibility with the current model for those > > that want it (and I think it's more people than you think) at the same > > time as changing the system to provide easy support for the environment > > you're looking for. If the default settings are changing, it should be a > > "5.0 feature" not a "4.x feature". > > FWIW, I thought this was a "new feature", since diskless/dataless > has never really worked for me, without a lot of local hacking to > make it work. > the first time around this was a real problem for me, starting off with FreeBSD and also doing the diskless stuff, now some time later (hum, about 2 years?), i tried it from scratch with 5.0 - it took me almost no time! adding the local mods took more time since i was (not very successfuly) recording the changes i was doing :-( btw, i did not have to do no 'lot of local hacking' to get it working: newfs /c/2; cd /c/2; dump 0f - / | restore rf - (brute force to get most of the local environment :-) make installworld DESTDIR=/c/2 and i could start booting 5.0 danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message