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Date:      16 Feb 2001 21:09:42 +0100
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@poboxes.com>
To:        falbu@amnesty.org
Cc:        freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How is the sysinstall launched?
Message-ID:  <hf1uxud5.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: falbu@amnesty.org's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:59:51 %2B0000"
References:  <OF4300B87F.0952119D-ON802569F5.005C6537@amnesty.org>

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falbu@amnesty.org writes:

> I was wondering, when you boot from the floppy or the CD to install 
> FreeBSD, where from is the sysinstall process launched?

when the boot process is finished, the kernel try to launch one
of the following commands in order :

/sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/stand/sysinstall

since the boot disk (mfsroot) don't have /sbin/init,
/stand/sysinstall is use instead.

Cyrille.
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