The existing bazaar and site-specific policy in rc.diskless1 is Just Wrong;

and looks like no other Unix diskless configuration I've ever seen.
Thus allow a more traditional /etc.

Note, the use of an MFS /var should also be settable.
Otherwise installing ports(packages) is just a total PITA.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/etc/rc.initdiskless b/etc/rc.initdiskless
index 30b4e4f..050628a 100644
--- a/etc/rc.initdiskless
+++ b/etc/rc.initdiskless
@@ -92,13 +92,14 @@ for i in ${iflist} ; do
 done
 echo "Interface ${bootp_ifc} IP-Address ${bootp_ipa} Broadcast ${bootp_ipbca}"
 
+if [ -d /conf/default/etc ]; then
+	mount_md 4096 /etc 0
+	chkerr $? "MFS mount on /etc"
+	/bin/chmod 755 /etc
 
-mount_md 4096 /etc 0
-chkerr $? "MFS mount on /etc"
-/bin/chmod 755 /etc
-
-/bin/cp -Rp /conf/default/etc/* /etc
-chkerr $? "cp /conf/default/etc to /etc MFS"
+	/bin/cp -Rp /conf/default/etc/* /etc
+	chkerr $? "cp /conf/default/etc to /etc MFS"
+fi
 
 # Allow for override files to replace files in /etc.  Use /conf/*/etc to find
 # the override files.  First choice is default files that # always override,
@@ -114,6 +115,11 @@ for i in ${bootp_ipbca} ${bootp_ipa} ; do
 	fi
 done
 
+# Since we are starting with a very fresh /etc on an MFS:
+if [ -d /conf/default/etc ]; then
+	newaliases
+if
+
 # Tell /etc/rc to run the specified script after it does its mounts but
 # before it does anything else.
 #