From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 8 17:43:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946652C4 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:43:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from duck.symmetricom.us (duck.symmetricom.us [206.168.13.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069B48FC08 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (daffy.symmetricom.us [206.168.13.218]) by duck.symmetricom.us (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qB8Hgs5e072101 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 10:42:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id qB8Hgf2h052364; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 10:42:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features From: Ian Lepore To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: References: <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> <50C26EF3.5070300@ose.nl> <1354923273.87661.273.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:42:40 -0700 Message-ID: <1354988560.87661.290.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bas Smeelen , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, CeDeROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:43:08 -0000 On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 23:31 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM, CeDeROM wrote: > > Hello Ian :-) > > > > This is the problem - / is read only and /etc/resolv.conf already links to > > nonexistent file. This way I cannot modify its content nor link other file > > (i.e. /var/resolv.conf) to /etc/resolv.conf. Creating /var/resolv.conf does > > not help either. > > > > I think /etc/resolv.conf should point to /var/resolv.conf from start so the > > resolver is functional :-) > > I generally get around this with mdmfs and unionfs mounts, but > it's a bit annoying... I'll see if I can file a PR with all of the > things that need to be fixed/enhanced and maybe fix some of the items > if I get some time (if the liveCD used rc.initdiskless it would be > considerably simpler and some key filesystems would be writable after > boot). > Thanks, > -Garrett It shouldn't require rc.initdiskless; just the fact that rc.d/var detects it can't write to /var should cause it to automatically create a memory fileystem for it, and minimally populate it. As far as I know, this is automatic unless you use rc.conf knobs to disable it. -- Ian