Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:40:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Michiel Boland <boland@carmel.diva.nl> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DISKLESS does not work any more since update Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105312234560.872-100000@carmel.diva.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010513191912.B6619@vger.bsdhome.com>
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On Sun, 13 May 2001, Brian Dean wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:19:12 -0400 > From: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> > To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: DISKLESS does not work any more since update > > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > > I switched back to the old rc.diskless-files and all things run all > > right. the problem seems to be MFS realted: the diskless system > > tries to do something in /var and so on but it cannot perform its > > task do a read only system. What happened? > > Yes, some changes were made. You now need to fully populate > /conf/default/etc with a copy of /etc. That should be the only thing > that should be required after mergemastering, everything else should > be backward compatible. So let me get this straight. After *every* mergemaster you should re-populate /conf/default/etc? Would it not be prudent to document this somewhere, like RELNOTES.TXT and/or UPDATING? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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