From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 26 18:53:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA25049 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:53:18 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA25040 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:53:13 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA09163; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:48:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509270148.SAA09163@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:48:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebs.org, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: <199509270123.VAA18934@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 26, 95 09:23:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 870 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > From: Coranth Gryphon > > +> Here we are in agreement. But I think trying to make a read-only > > +> configuration is a lot more hassle than it is worth. > > > Argument: boot from CDROM to see if you can successfully run the > > new version on your particular hardware. > > Counter: The cdrom, if it contains a live file system, needs to contain > a basic configuraton (a sample, if you will). > > If you go to the extent to make the CDROM bootable, making the sample > configuration (sample /etc) a valid one shouldn't be all that tough. Counter-counter: IP addreses and default name servers and gateway can not be preconfigured on a CDROM. Therefore the must be in a non-ROM (MFS?) location. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.