From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 19:14:36 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 0324616A4CE; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:14:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.jazztel.es (smtp1.jazztel.es [62.14.3.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E271943D62; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:14:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from antivirus by smtp1.jazztel.es with antivirus id 1CFHFQ-0005sI-00 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:14:48 +0200 Received: from [212.106.254.137] (helo=rguez.homeunix.net) by smtp1.jazztel.es with esmtp id 1CFHFQ-0005rU-00 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:14:48 +0200 Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) by rguez.homeunix.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i96JEV76096747; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:14:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i96JESOh007160; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:14:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.redesjm.local: freebsd set sender to josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es using -f From: Jose M Rodriguez To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:14:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <50044.208.4.77.15.1097084904.squirrel@208.4.77.15> <200410061413.51459.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200410061413.51459.jhb@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410062114.27791.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.1-beta; AVE 6.27.0.12; VDF 6.27.0.81 (host: antares.redesjm.local) X-Virus-Scanned: by antivirus 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 19:14:36 -0000 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