From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Dec 9 10:13:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5C137B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:13:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17ACD43EBE for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6V006TR6MKR7@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:13:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:08:31 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-146.acuson.com [157.226.46.146]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R9QHXG; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:10:33 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:13:39 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: In-reply-to: <200212090952.21853.pacman@huji.ac.il> To: Voicu Liviu , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <200212091013.39304.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200212090952.21853.pacman@huji.ac.il> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday 08 December 2002 11:52 pm, Voicu Liviu wrote: > Hi, > Any one can explaind me why FreeBSD doesn't have the KERNEL stored under > /boot? > Thanks I can't think of any particular reason why is shouldn't be installed under / instead of /boot other than tradition. I quick survey of Linux systems shows that only about half prefer /boot. A look at Solaris shows that it's installed under /kernel. Other than the fact that /boot can have its own partition separate from /, is there any advantage to putting the kernel there? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message