From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 18:59:26 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 4511016A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:59:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D1843D3F for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:59:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 20394 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2004 18:59:25 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Oct 2004 18:59:24 -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 i96Iwsmp074356; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:59:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:13:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <200410051249.37820.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <50044.208.4.77.15.1097084904.squirrel@208.4.77.15> In-Reply-To: <50044.208.4.77.15.1097084904.squirrel@208.4.77.15> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410061413.51459.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Ryan Sommers 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: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:59:26 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org