Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:14:27 +0200 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: 5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ? Message-ID: <200410062114.27791.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> In-Reply-To: <200410061413.51459.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <50044.208.4.77.15.1097084904.squirrel@208.4.77.15> <200410061413.51459.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 20:13, John Baldwin wrote: > 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. Take care of: - it only takes ~2 MB of your rootfs. - I'm not sure that /rescue/tar can work without a tmp dir and this is really needed for initdiskless oper (/stand/cpio). - can sysinstall unlink his own binary before restart? -- josemi
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