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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?


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