From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 11:55:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD1F37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9085143FD7 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28BF5679DA; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 030031249; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:55:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:55:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Meyer Cc: Thanos Tsouanas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dist and /modules.old Message-ID: <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030228011221.44087.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> <15967.37079.931304.796872@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15967.37079.931304.796872@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:39:51AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > /dist is probably (<- means I'm not sure) leftover from the > installation process. It may be used by /stand/sysinstall to mount > things if you run that. I don't think /dist is used by FreeBSD at all. It was probably created by hand or by some other software installed on the system. > /modules.old will be recreated as needed. /dist may not, but should > only cause problems with sysinstall not being able to mount a > distribution. If you never use sysinstall, it won't be a problem. Given the above, it should not affect sysinstall or anything else in FreeBSD. Kris --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+X764Wry0BWjoQKURAnFiAJ99icxm+WSDF0o8VhsziFQ3NIM3BACfUhUH 2WIC27jJOGqdysl7x86Jxqo= =q4LO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message