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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD
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> Basically, the /etc/sysconfig is the only thing that won't get crapped on
> by an install update.

On consideration, there's a corollary to this:

The /etc/sysconfig file should be machine genereated instead of on
the install media as a part of the install set.

That way the machine generation can take an existing /etc/sysconfig
into account.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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