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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 17:31:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to update flash disk with PicoBSD??
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171730510.57242-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <39213A9A.EEACD315@wireless.net>

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On Tue, 16 May 2000, Devin Butterfield wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just started playing with PicoBSD on a Netpliance i-Opener (on the
> sandisk), and I was able to get an image of the net version of PicoBSD
> (.445) copied onto the sandisk and running well (very cool!)...except
> that I can't seem to "update" ANYTHING on the system. Any changes I make
> to scripts, changes to root's password, etc., are not actually saved to
> disk and upon reboot root's passwd is still "setup" and none of my other
> changes are saved.

PicoBSD copies up the /etc directory from the boot media (in this case the
SANdisk) for it's MFS root.  You'll have to remount the SANdisk volume and
modify the /etc files on there if you want to make permanent changes.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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