Re: I deleted /stand/, but I need it again for diskless boot...

Ryan Sommers wrote:
> Rob said:
> 
>>I'm willing to try just anything.
>>The problem is that I'm not familiar with the cpio and pax commands.
> 
> Ok, here is a patch for /etc/rc.d/initdiskless. Note, I currently don't
> have a diskless system to test on, I'm still looking for some PXE hardware
> that isn't being used in production that I can use to work with cleaning
> up the diskless environment for 5.x. So, I make no promises. :)
> 
> Index: initdiskless
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/rc.d/initdiskless,v
> retrieving revision 1.39
> diff -u -r1.39 initdiskless
> --- initdiskless        7 Oct 2004 13:55:26 -0000       1.39
> +++ initdiskless        18 Oct 2004 18:03:23 -0000
> _at__at_ -305,7 +305,7 _at__at_
>         if [ -f $j ]; then
>             create_md $subdir
>             echo "Loading /$subdir from cpio archive $j"
> -           (cd / ; /stand/gzip -d < $j | /stand/cpio --extract -d )
> +           (cd / ; pax -rz -p e -f $j )
>         fi
>      done
>      for j in /conf/$i/*.remove ; do
> 
> Now, in addition to this you will need my other patch that moves gzip to
> /bin instead of /usr/bin. You can download it at
> http://208.4.77.15/gzip-to-bin.tgz
> 
> To add it to your source tree: cd /usr/src (or your respective directory)
> ; tar zxvf /path/to/gzip-to-bin.tgz ; rm -rf gnu/usr.bin/gzip
> 
> Then a regular build/install world, and you'll have to remake your NFS
> mounted root. I tested this patch with a build/install world this morning.

Thanks. I have done all that and the master PC is compiling (it's a slow
system, taking almost a day to compile world). I'll report the results
soon.

If successful, will you suggest/submit this as an official patch for 5.3;
or will it be merely a personal patch for my diskless setup?

If it's going into 5.3, then /stand should be removed altogether after
the install process!

Rob.