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Date:      Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:42:19 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from NT ?
Message-ID:  <199809262242.PAA24523@usr04.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <9809252112.ZM8803@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from "Allen Smith" at Sep 25, 98 09:12:50 pm

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> > 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
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