Some ideas on Tim's script

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:24 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
>> 
>> But first, with 8G images, I had to adjust the config.sh's SD_SIZE below 7900 for Kingston SD Cards to fit.  I can give more specifics if desired.  Anyone else experience that?
> 
> I have a bunch of different SD cards around here -- different
> sizes, different manufacturers -- and I think every one is
> 50MB-100MB smaller than the advertised size.

8GB is 8,000,000,000 bytes. This 7812500kb or 7630MB.

> 
>> And maybe to add the relevant ntpdate(8) settings to /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Has anyone tried running ntpdate from devd?  So that when/if
> the network interface initializes, ntpdate gets run at that point.
> That would avoid the tedious delay if there's no network at
> boot time.

I've never tried it...  Interesting idea...

Warner