Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:13:51 -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: <200410061413.51459.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <50044.208.4.77.15.1097084904.squirrel@208.4.77.15> References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <200410051249.37820.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <50044.208.4.77.15.1097084904.squirrel@208.4.77.15>
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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:48 pm, Ryan Sommers wrote: > > /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? Prior to /rescue it was (ab)used as a sort of /rescue type of thing. Now that we have /rescue, it probably can be removed after the installation is complete. -- 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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