From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 31 13:41:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from carmel.diva.nl (carmel.diva.nl [195.86.140.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B559A37B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:41:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boland@carmel.diva.nl) Received: from localhost (boland@localhost) by carmel.diva.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4VKevn01271; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:40:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:40:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Michiel Boland To: Brian Dean Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DISKLESS does not work any more since update In-Reply-To: <20010513191912.B6619@vger.bsdhome.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 May 2001, Brian Dean wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:19:12 -0400 > From: Brian Dean > To: "Hartmann, O." > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: DISKLESS does not work any more since update > > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > > I switched back to the old rc.diskless-files and all things run all > > right. the problem seems to be MFS realted: the diskless system > > tries to do something in /var and so on but it cannot perform its > > task do a read only system. What happened? > > Yes, some changes were made. You now need to fully populate > /conf/default/etc with a copy of /etc. That should be the only thing > that should be required after mergemastering, everything else should > be backward compatible. So let me get this straight. After *every* mergemaster you should re-populate /conf/default/etc? Would it not be prudent to document this somewhere, like RELNOTES.TXT and/or UPDATING? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message