From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 26 15:42:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27644 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27633 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15768; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:42:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd015742; Sat Sep 26 15:42:31 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA24523; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:42:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809262242.PAA24523@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:42:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9809252112.ZM8803@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from "Allen Smith" at Sep 25, 98 09:12:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You have to change the rc scripts to not try to generate the /var/run > > information, or some of the startups *will* fail. > > > > You can make it run with modifications, in other words. > > > > Without modifications, it limps. > > Umm... one generally finds that things in /var will _var_y, yes... I > would suggest that having the stuff in /var be on seperate, writeable > media makes sense (along with swap files, including space for a mfs > /tmp). The minimal modification is an MFS /var, mounted early, and a symlink from /tmp -> /var/tmp, yes. Having a DEVFS (with SLICE) also helps... one less thing to deal with not being R/O. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message