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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:48:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
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Subject: Re: 5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ?
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> /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.

Is there any reason why we need /stand after the install process? As part
of the post-install configuration would it be possible to have /stand
removed?

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Ryan Sommers
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