From owner-freebsd-small Wed May 17 17:31:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9E237BCCF for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:31:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4I0Vio65847; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:31:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Devin Butterfield Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to update flash disk with PicoBSD?? In-Reply-To: <39213A9A.EEACD315@wireless.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message