Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:34:02 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r223129 - head/release Message-ID: <4DFD0BBA.1010502@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110617231757.GA40286@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <201106152338.p5FNcFlN003175@svn.freebsd.org> <20110617231757.GA40286@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 06/17/11 18:17, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Jun-15 23:38:15 +0000, Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> Log: >> Do not install the rescue tools onto the install CD. Since it is read >> only, they are very unlikely to be needed and take up a great deal of >> space. > If I've correctly understood this change, I'm not sure this is a > positive move. > > Based on a quick test, removing /rescue saves about 4MB (in reality, > the saving should be less because /rescue removes the need for > /stand). OTOH, it renders the install CD useless as a recovery > "fixit" disk - whilst the CD is unlikely to need recovery itself, it > was useful for recovering hard disks Since all of our install CDs for 9.0 (even the boot-only ones!) will be live CDs, the full versions of everything in /rescue are on the CD in their usual locations in /bin, /sbin, etc. and these can be used just as well for fixing a system as the /rescue tools. -Nathan
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