From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 06:24:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CE516A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 06:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asarian-host.net (mail.asarian-host.net [194.109.160.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFF543D39 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 06:23:59 -0700 (PDT) SRS0=HOeaY5X4=HL=asarian-host.net=admin@asarian-host.net) Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email accounts can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.asarian-host.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i3FDNwU3007998 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:23:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) From: Mark Received-SPF: pass (asarian-host.net: domain of admin@asarian-host.net designates sender IP as SASL permitted sender) Message-Id: <200404151323.I3FDNWAN007986@asarian-host.net> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:23:58 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net X-Trace: YNZLd4A5gr7o3OmYyjQ3Mp7nZgkIQZ8CUxrpfds6p/5AVORH39FmrYTgJ3Nw8M5xL56x9lOYIM5yn7fmPicpzw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: References: <200404041317.I34DHQLD058095@asarian-host.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAQH6M7jFqW1BleBN9AQGw3Qf/SXHa5Sfl6wXCZ/3qCTBltRG6bEgWou62 hJSbhlUjFPKk5IaLmEUqfQKXpbBp2jAG7nKNcpUJlja8M5CNtqs0eRQln7FQOaCj 9klVS6MSunwO827/UYSEMNs0vvt94WdxFFKoLQAg42v5ONRLjHQF80BIpFS/nKs7 s+yYyVxsSqtaSPcxkk8H7nAzi+NYgLWb5PYNG3G1JtExzO/c6NJvYt6L6AW90s4r MfwKL0SQ6PrgveT6PApnYqS5TRgZOgKhXIbQD00AhAQaIO9Gu52TLahtGwOL5dN1 2wakbJesIwMc6YBCTS+D1DbE0ZuXJzPrnjj/A2PPP1dOHCHc+J//oQ== =ZQP/ Subject: Re: When I'm all done.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:24:00 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:53 PM Subject: Re: When I'm all done.. > Mark wrote: > > > For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories, after > > the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is anything > > needed, at runtime, from those directories? > > You have a couple of options for creating small "emergency" disks: > > 1] The "Live" CD is precisely for that - booting from in an emergency. > > 2] See the following entries on my blog for links to small distros: Thanks. I use the emergency disk for calamities, such as require a root-partition restore. Having a handy live-CD to do that would not hurt either. :) Whenever I boot from the install CD's, they always seem to use my existing partitions (which makes a root-partition restore impossible). - Mark