Hi Nick, On 10/14/13 00:59, Nick Hibma wrote: > Sounds useful: We have nanobsd images that configure a hard disk if present, > but obviously only need to be run once. > > However: NanoBSD stores uses a memory disk for /etc and stores it's permanent > scripts in /conf/* (/etc/rc.initdiskless) and/or /cfg (NanoBSD) so I doubt > whether the 'embedded systems' argument is of much use, as deleting the > script or flagging 'firstboot' is non-permanent.
Yes, it's hard to store state on diskless systems... but I figured that anyone building a diskless system would know to not create a "run firstboot scripts" marker. And not all embedded systems are diskless... -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
