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To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
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Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> I'm guessing that the purpose of this code is to unmount devfs from /dev
> so that when the base distribution is unpacked it can populate /dev from
> the tarball.

Why would sysinstall need to populate /dev from the tarball?

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