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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 21:42:45 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
To:        Michiel Boland <boland@carmel.diva.nl>
Cc:        Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DISKLESS does not work any more since update
Message-ID:  <3B171D45.8F6FCF44@DougBarton.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105312234560.872-100000@carmel.diva.nl>

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Michiel Boland wrote:
> 
> 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?

	You could also run any recent mergemaster with a -D/conf/default/etc
argument to do the update for you. To my limited knowledge, this would
work.

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