Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork

[Julian Elischer]

On 7/9/13 6:12 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Chad J. Milios wrote:
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> We also had to put one file into the etc directory on the / "beneath" the /etc mount so that /sbin/init can read it before /etc is mounted. There were two or three ways we could do that and each has a tradeoff.
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> I've been bitten by that.
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> Getting access to that file that's "beneath" once you've booted the system can be ... less than easy.

if it's hardlinked to another copy that is not "beneath" then you can 
just edit it.

I once had a system at vicor where I had a temporary "beneath" /etc 
that had all its files linked to files of the same name in /etc.boot/

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