From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 11 01:39:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0243F106566B for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505e.appriver.com [98.129.35.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01568FC14 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.14 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht01.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: 112 113 114 115 119 120 131 217 X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.14] (HELO ht01.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 13419779 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:39:38 -0600 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.164]) by ht01.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.14]) with mapi; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:39:39 -0600 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:39:37 -0600 Thread-Topic: Renaming USB device Thread-Index: AcpiarAXV9vl98H4RPu638fUIShQQAABACPA Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F790@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F75F@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20091111003430.a95d79c8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Renaming USB device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:41 -0000 >Labels are an excellent solution in this case. I've done some quick research on this and it will indeed solve the issue re= garding a generic fstab. I have a related question though. I want to take t= his a step further and convert the bootable USB stick into a bootable CD-RO= M image. This is a little trickier because the CD-ROM device is read-only a= nd I'm going to have to use some solution involving mfsroot. I checked out = the BSD Live CD and there isn't even a /etc/fstab on the disk, at least not= the /etc on the root of the CD. I tried to duplicate what I thought they w= ere doing but although I could got a bootable CD the system complained that= the file system was read-only, so clearly the mfsroot config wasn't set up= correctly. How exactly is this done? And ultimately there will be the same= issue with the /etc/fstab as far as providing a generic entry for the root= mount device. I don't think I can use glabel in this case. What's the best= option here?