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	Karpberg on Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:56:42 +0200 (CEST))
Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk
From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
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 * From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>

 * Why not Simply make your rc.conf set the hostname to: `cat /var/hostname`

I want the machines to boot up correctly the first time with only the
CD-ROM.  As I mentioned in the previous mail, all that is required to
add another machine to the cluster is to hook it up, stick in the
CD-ROM and boot.

 * Well... Moving /etc/nologin seems like a perfectly sane thing to do, except
 * for hysterical reasons. I see no reason to move anything else, however.
 * Just have the CDROM set hostname to /var/hostname and make /etc/motd a symlink
 * to /var/motd, or such. If you need some file to change, just make it a symlink
 * on the CD, and make the system go to /var/ that way instead of changing
 * the scripts. Or am I missing something?

Actually the only things I was thinking about moving were nologin and
motd.  Both don't seem to belong to /etc (at least the writable part).
(Basically, I find the idea of a system script writing something to
/etc somewhat offensive. :)

Satoshi

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