From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 13:55:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D235106566C; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:55:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3AE48FC15; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:55:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp118-210-8-217.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [118.210.8.217]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p8NDtasK068117 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:25:43 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <4E7C8AC2.6020704@a1poweruser.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:25:36 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <3A411FD7-7C07-4536-9EDD-8F5D8F716027@gsoft.com.au> References: <4E7BEA42.4020004@a1poweruser.com> <94B70CFD-D1EA-4C64-8384-BBE00185280D@gsoft.com.au> <4E7C8AC2.6020704@a1poweruser.com> To: Fbsd8 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Spam-Score: 2.162 (**) BAYES_00,KHOP_DYNAMIC,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:55:53 -0000 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