Hi! This PR is about one year old. I've just submit a patch to FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE, which worked just fine for me. Could anybody look at this PR? The patch is very simple but helpful: -------------- next part -------------- --- clone_root.orig Sat May 28 18:20:09 2005 +++ clone_root Sun May 29 00:12:28 2005 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ SYSDIRS="dev proc root usr var" DIRS="cdrom home mnt" PWFILES="master.passwd passwd spwd.db pwd.db" -TOCOPY="bin boot compat etc modules sbin stand sys" +TOCOPY="bin boot compat etc lib libexec sbin stand" init_diskless_root() { echo "Cleaning old diskless root ($DEST)" @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ mkdir -p $DEST && echo "New diskless root created." echo "+++ Now copy original tree from / ..." ex="" - (cd / ; tar -clf - ${TOCOPY} ) | (cd $DEST; tar xvf - ) + (cd / ; tar --one-file-system -cf - ${TOCOPY} ) | (cd $DEST; tar xvf - ) #(cd / ; find -x dev | cpio -o -H newc ) | \ # (cd $DEST; cpio -i -H newc -d ) echo "+++ Fixing permissions on some objects" @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ update_conf_and_pw() { echo "+++ Copying files in /conf and password files" (cd ${DEST} ; rm -rf conf ) - (cd / ; tar clf - conf ) | (cd ${DEST}; tar xvf - ) + (cd / ; tar --one-file-system -cf - conf ) | (cd ${DEST}; tar xvf - ) mkdir -p ${DEST}/conf/etc # used to mount things (cd /etc ; tar cvf - ${PWFILES} ) | (cd ${DEST}/etc ; tar xf - ) } @@ -113,12 +113,9 @@ done echo "." ln -s /var/tmp ${DEST}/tmp - echo "+++ Now use MAKEDEV to create devices ${DEVICES}" - (cd $DEST/dev ; cp /dev/MAKEDEV . ) - (cd $DEST/dev ; /dev/MAKEDEV ${DEVICES} ) (cd $DEST/dev ; ln -s /dev/sysmouse mouse ) - echo "+++ Copying kernel from /sys/compile/DISKLESS" - cp /sys/compile/DISKLESS/kernel $DEST/kernel + echo "+++ Copying kernel from /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DISKLESS" + cp /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DISKLESS/kernel $DEST/boot/kernel/kernel echo "." } -------------- next part -------------- WBR -- bsam