From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 16:52:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2E016A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D62143D49 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 26132 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2004 16:52:29 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Oct 2004 16:52:28 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.210] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i95GqKLf065529; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:52:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:49:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <16738.45007.276964.761754@canoe.dclg.ca> <200410051738.32415.freebsd@redesjm.local> In-Reply-To: <200410051738.32415.freebsd@redesjm.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410051249.37820.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: spam maps cc: Tim Kientzle cc: Jose M Rodriguez cc: David Gilbert Subject: Re: 5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:52:29 -0000 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 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org