> / is also intended to contain other stuff, the binaries you need to get > things working well enough to find everything else, the libraries they > require, the kernel modules.
Which for an enterprise deployment on a platform that has limited choices in hardware should change infrequently and be pretty much the same on every machine. You definitely don't need/want user data in / (definitely NOT /tmp) and the configuration information in /etc is read by things that are later in the process than the things you list (ie can be handled after you substitute a machine-specific /etc for the "default" /etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390