From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 26 17:40:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA15803 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:40:31 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA15798 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:40:24 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA08885; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:36:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509270036.RAA08885@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:36:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebs.org, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: <199509262213.SAA18328@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 26, 95 06:13:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 630 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > From: Terry Lambert > > /var or whatever. All I want is a directory that doesn't get touched > > on an upgrade so that I can drop in a new distribution sans my /home > > partition and my system configuration data and be up and running. > > Here we are in agreement. But I think trying to make a read-only > configuration is a lot more hassle than it is worth. Argument: boot from CDROM to see if you can successfully run the new version on your particular hardware. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.