Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:45:27 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <199810072345.QAA11625@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <199810071056.MAA11769@ocean.campus.luth.se> (message from Mikael Karpberg on Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:56:42 %2B0200 (CEST))
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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