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diff --git a/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc b/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc
index 4376ab4..052bfc6 100755
--- a/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc
+++ b/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc
@@ -3,6 +3,22 @@
 # (c) Thomas Lange, 2001-2016, lange@debian.org
 # (c) Michael Goetze, 2010-2011, mgoetze@mgoetze.net
 
+
+# on ubuntu 16.04 which didn't run this script, some things which didn't
+# apply:
+# /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/fai didn't exist,
+# machine-id was already setup.
+
+# on that system and a debian stretch system, after reboot,
+# some things done here don't seem to persist:
+# some thin/etc/mtab is symlink somewhere else,
+# and mailname is $HOSTNAME.lan
+
+# the adjtime thing is to support changing the system clock
+# from representing UTC (the default) to localtime (windows default).
+
+# afaik, the only useful thing here for me is setting /etc/hostname
+
 error=0; trap 'error=$(($?>$error?$?:$error))' ERR # save maximum error code
 
 # a list of modules which are loaded at boot time
@@ -42,8 +58,9 @@ ln -fs /proc/mounts $target/etc/mtab
 rm -f $target/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/fai $target/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/unsafe-io
 
 if [ -d /etc/fai ]; then
-    ainsl -a /etc/fai/fai.conf "FAI_CONFIG_SRC=$FAI_CONFIG_SRC"
-    fcopy -Miv /etc/fai/fai.conf
+    if ! fcopy -Mv /etc/fai/fai.conf; then
+	ainsl -a /etc/fai/fai.conf "FAI_CONFIG_SRC=$FAI_CONFIG_SRC"
+    fi
 fi
 fcopy -iv /etc/rc.local