Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:25:36 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage Message-ID: <3A411FD7-7C07-4536-9EDD-8F5D8F716027@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4E7C8AC2.6020704@a1poweruser.com> References: <4E7BEA42.4020004@a1poweruser.com> <94B70CFD-D1EA-4C64-8384-BBE00185280D@gsoft.com.au> <4E7C8AC2.6020704@a1poweruser.com>
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On 23/09/2011, at 23:03, Fbsd8 wrote: >> The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at = startup. >> If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your = install media again by accident. >> -- >> Daniel O'Connor=20 >=20 > You did not read my post correctly. I dont say bsdinstall is run every = time I boot. I said "the bsdinstall scripts still remain on the new = installed system." The point I was making is it should not remain. I think that is pretty debatable, you could certainly use them to = install onto a new disk - say you had a machine you couldn't boot the = install media off so you put the disk in your PC. Also, it should be very difficult to destroy your installed setup while = you're actually booted into it because GEOM will prevent partition = changes to mounted disks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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