From owner-freebsd-config Fri Feb 16 12:10: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6066537B401 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:10:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10202478 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2001 20:09:50 -0000 Received: from d165.dhcp212-231.cybercable.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.165]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Feb 2001 20:09:50 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1GK9i625442; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:09:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from clefevre@poboxes.com) To: falbu@amnesty.org Cc: freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How is the sysinstall launched? References: X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C In-Reply-To: falbu@amnesty.org's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:59:51 +0000" From: Cyrille Lefevre Reply-To: clefevre@poboxes.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 16 Feb 2001 21:09:42 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- home: mailto:clefevre@poboxes.com UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message