Re: Shared-root diskless netboot, critical local/remote mounts, and rc.conf

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Iâ??ve been looking off and on at what it would take to set up NetBSD for "N$
> [...]
> Anyway, has anyone else experimented with this sort of thing or have any fur$

I've done something vaguely similar.

I had a disk which, under different circumstances (the details of
where/how it's being used), could be sd0 or wd0.  I wanted it to
auto-adapt at boot time.  I did it with a custom rc.d script which
mounted a tiny mfs and wrote a symlink into it, with /etc/fstab (and
possibly something else? not sure) being symlinks that went through
that mfs mount.  The biggest resulting headache (and it wasn't all that
big) was that fstab was a broken link when booted single-user.

It sounds as though you might have more than that to do.  But note that
rc.conf is not just a collection of variables; it is a shell script.
It can run programs and probe various things to determine what to set
variables to.

At worst you might have to add code to /etc/rc, though my tendency
would be to look fairly hard at finding ways to avoid that.

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