Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:31:43 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Freebsd Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting Message-ID: <E170GJb-0002Rb-00@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> of "Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:17:11 PDT." <3CC5A527.180DB66D@mindspring.com>
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> Robert Watson wrote: > > This would provide full compatibility with the current model for those > > that want it (and I think it's more people than you think) at the same > > time as changing the system to provide easy support for the environment > > you're looking for. If the default settings are changing, it should be a > > "5.0 feature" not a "4.x feature". > > FWIW, I thought this was a "new feature", since diskless/dataless > has never really worked for me, without a lot of local hacking to > make it work. > the first time around this was a real problem for me, starting off with FreeBSD and also doing the diskless stuff, now some time later (hum, about 2 years?), i tried it from scratch with 5.0 - it took me almost no time! adding the local mods took more time since i was (not very successfuly) recording the changes i was doing :-( btw, i did not have to do no 'lot of local hacking' to get it working: newfs /c/2; cd /c/2; dump 0f - / | restore rf - (brute force to get most of the local environment :-) make installworld DESTDIR=/c/2 and i could start booting 5.0 danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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