Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:42:40 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features Message-ID: <1354988560.87661.290.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wTLVNAk3k=Cfg2oHhchOk9cXSZO7ReKy2%2Bbdy6b6XFvnw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXj=R=V=3pUH9FbKq3pdqtga-EuJuTB1avZxi2bkLhUs5WA@mail.gmail.com> <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> <50C26EF3.5070300@ose.nl> <1354923273.87661.273.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAFYkXjnto9nnkCopMPRkwGShPZ4GcHzHxD15y4iffUHri1K5Qg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wTLVNAk3k=Cfg2oHhchOk9cXSZO7ReKy2%2Bbdy6b6XFvnw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 23:31 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM, CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> 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
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