From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 18:39:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28975 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:39:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28944 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:38:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA27382; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:38:23 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199802060146.MAA01957@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Fri, 06 Feb 1998 01:05:00 +0100." <199802060005.BAA27868@ocean.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:36:09 -0600 To: Mike Smith From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Cc: Mikael Karpberg , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" At 7:46 PM -0600 2/5/98, Mike Smith wrote: >> According to Mike Smith: >> > It occurred to me this morning that the *ideal* behaviour would be as >> > follows: >> > >> > If boot.banner exists, display it, else if boot.help exists, display it. >> > Don't have a 'help' command. Instead, if an unrecognised command is >> > entered, and finding a kernel named thus fails, look for a file named >> > boot. and display it instead. >> > >> > This lets you have more than one help screen, just for openers. It >> > might even reduce the code footprint a little. >> >> With all these boot.XXXX files, and stuff, isn't it time for doing >> /boot/XXXX instead? Seems to me the root should have as few files as >> possible. > >Last time I proposed that, Bruce was rather unhappy about it. IMHO >it's the right approach though. I imagine that his objection is that he will either need to understand each fs directory structure or go through even more special code to force things into fixed locations. Personally, I would like to see "/" purged of everything possible. However, I would like to add a "/.rc" file to be used as a stub in place of "/etc/rc". This would permit me to have a way to mount "/etc" as a read-only file system and still maintain a writeable root in a mfs. Richard Wackerbarth