On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     This does not make any operational change except to get rid
>     of the $conf_dir junk from rc.conf, which I originally put 
>     in to try to bootstrap rc.diskless.
> 
>     A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me,
>     which I'm going to implement.  It involves retargeting
>     the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS 
>     filesystem onto /conf.  Then one simply makes /etc/rc.conf.local
>     a softlink to /conf/ME/rc.conf.local ( i.e. a sysop would do 
>     that as an extra, we wouldn't distribute the base system 
>     like that of course )
> 
>     In anycase, I've committed a new rc.conf that gets rid
>     of $conf_dir, FYI, and am about to commit a new rc.diskless and
>     new examples that uses the mount_union idea for retargeting
>     during a diskless boot that will be much more straightward and
>     obvious.
> 

Hasn't mount_union been dead for ~forever (+/- a few years)?

>                                       -Matt
>                                       Matthew Dillon 
>                                       <dil...@backplane.com>
> 
> 
> 
> rc_conf_files="/etc/rc.conf.site /etc/rc.conf.local"
> 
> ...
> 
> ##############################################################
> ### Allow local configuration override at the very end here ##
> ##############################################################
> #
> #
> 
> for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
>         if [ -f $i ]; then
>                 . $i
>         fi
> done
> 
> 
> 
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