On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:47:14AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I was reading this month's SysAdmin magazine, and came across this article
> about Bootprofile for Linux. You can find more info at
> http://www.rajeevnet.com/ The basic idea is that at boot time they copy
> various files from predefined configurations into the default system
> locations.
>
> While I don't really like the idea of copying files around, it occurred to
> me that we could do something similar by defining different rc.conf files
> at boot time. This eliminates the chief problems I have with the
> bootprofile approach, which are mounting / rw very early, and the copying
> of files so early in the process.
>
> Before I consider working on this idea, what do you guys think of it in
> general? Useful? Waste of time?

NetBSD has a configuration manager iirc, src/etc/rc.d/bootconf.sh
I'm not entirely sure how it works, but it might worth looking at.

-gordon