Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:49:37 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: 5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ? Message-ID: <200410051249.37820.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200410051738.32415.freebsd@redesjm.local> References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <16738.45007.276964.761754@canoe.dclg.ca> <200410051738.32415.freebsd@redesjm.local>
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On Tuesday 05 October 2004 11:38 am, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 16:29, David Gilbert wrote: > > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> writes: > > > > Tim> /stand is largely defunct. It is, I believe, still used to > > Tim> bootstrap the CD-ROM installation, but has no particular purpose > > Tim> after that point. > > > > I was always confused with sysinstall being in /stand. I always > > understood /stand as executables that ran from the loader. The > > "standalone environment." > > > > Dave. > > Right now, /stand is installed from sysinstall, and used, at last, > from /etc/rc.d/initdiskless. /stand is installed as part of the installation process. Basically, sysinstall starts off by letting you partition your disks. Once that is done, it mounts everything under /mnt, then copies the /stand off of the mfsroot to /mnt/stand and finally chroots into mnt for the rest of the install. It copies /stand so that it can still get to the utilities in /stand that it needs while it does the actual install. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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