What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new
set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account? Your kernel
env dhcp variables are really good.
i was thinking of adding something like this to dhcp:
option FBSD.rc-conf
Danny,
What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new
set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account? Your kernel
env dhcp variables are really good. I know that many do want to do what
you are doing (large scale RO /); but up until now
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
: diskless_root_readonly=NO # Make it YES for readonly
:
: good.
What's wrong with
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
Robert Watson wrote:
I have't really used the diskless environment with 4.x, but use it
extensively in my test/development environments for 5.0. Stateless
workstations are great when it comes to file system debugging, especially
since newfs is orders of magnitude faster than fsck :-).
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
+if [ -z `hostname -s` ]; then
+hostname=`kenv dhcp.host-name`
+hostname $hostname
+echo Hostname is $hostname
+fi
If you wanted to match the style for most of the rc* files, and avoid an
Danny,
What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new
set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account? Your kernel
env dhcp variables are really good. I know that many do want to do what
you are doing (large scale RO /); but up until now /etc/rc.diskless*
I'll commit this to rc.diskless1
this will only work if you include the changes to bootp.c
+if [ -z `hostname -s` ]; then
+hostname=`kenv dhcp.host-name`
+hostname $hostname
+echo Hostname is $hostname
+fi
BUT you've missed the point with
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:40:44AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
Since im very interested in diskless/dataless, and i've been at it for some
time now, i made some changes to libstand/bootp.c and /etc/rc.diskless1
which i wouldn't mind receiving commnets/suggestions, and if possible
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:19:56AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
That being that some of us actually WANT /etc to be left the fsck alone.
We NFS mount / and that / has /etc as it should be. I also cannot follow
what you are trying to do with /etc/conf. Perhaps you could comment that
part?
David O'Brien wrote:
/ ( and whatever is under it) is NFS mounted read only, as should be.
This is where all of us doing Sparc64 development say you are wrong -- /
is NFS mounted RW. Back in the SunOS diskless workstations days were
this was invented, / was NFS mounted RW. Please stop
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:38:59AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
the 'original' solution is to make /etc writable is to mount a MD, then copy
all
/conf/default/etc to it.
The very original solution was to mount NFS / RW. The move to
/conf/default/etc was someone's special needs
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:38:59AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
the 'original' solution is to make /etc writable is to mount a MD, then copy
all
/conf/default/etc to it.
The very original solution was to mount NFS / RW. The move to
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
diskless_root_readonly=NO # Make it YES for readonly
good.
diskless_etc_localmd=NO # Make it YES to have the
# diskless environment md-mount and replicate /etc from /conf
Seems the if [ -d ] tests in
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
diskless_root_readonly=NO # Make it YES for readonly
good.
diskless_etc_localmd=NO # Make it YES to have the
# diskless environment md-mount and replicate /etc from /conf
Seems the if [ -d ] tests in
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:32:51PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
diskless_root_readonly=NO # Make it YES for readonly
good.
diskless_etc_localmd=NO # Make it YES to have the
# diskless
David O'Brien wrote:
The very original solution was to mount NFS / RW. The move to
/conf/default/etc was someone's special needs leaking into the FreeBSD
repository. If you want to special case, things be my guest -- add an
elif test; but leave RW NFS mounted / alone.
This isn't
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,
Terry Lambert wrote:
configured by the green-and-which Systeam Adminstrator's Guide
green-and-white System
for SunOS.
Ugh.
-- Terry
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
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
Robert Watson wrote:
I have't really used the diskless environment with 4.x, but use it
extensively in my test/development environments for 5.0. Stateless
workstations are great when it comes to file system debugging, especially
since newfs is orders of magnitude faster than fsck :-).
THat
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
+if [ -z `hostname -s` ]; then
+hostname=`kenv dhcp.host-name`
+hostname $hostname
+echo Hostname is $hostname
+fi
If you wanted to match the style for most of the rc* files, and avoid an
unecessary call
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:40:44AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
Since im very interested in diskless/dataless, and i've been at it for some
time now, i made some changes to libstand/bootp.c and /etc/rc.diskless1
which i wouldn't mind receiving commnets/suggestions, and if possible
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:40:44AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
Since im very interested in diskless/dataless, and i've been at it for some
time now, i made some changes to libstand/bootp.c and /etc/rc.diskless1
which i wouldn't mind receiving commnets/suggestions, and if possible
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