From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 06:50:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA02425 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 06:50:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA02414 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 06:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA05846; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:50:03 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:50:00 +1100 (EST) From: David Nugent Reply-To: davidn@blaze.net.au To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Softweyr LLC , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.6 Install question (resend) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: >> > How odd... I'll keep that for future reference. >> >> OTTMCO. /sbin is, literally, "standalone bin;" it is needed to bring >> the system up. Everything needed to bring the system up must be in the >> root filesystem. > >I thought it was "Superuser BINaries". (see /usr/sbin) Well, I thought it was "system bin", as in system utilities and programs - programs used for and by the system itself. Having mount(8) on a non-root partition is sort of a catch-22. :-) I can easily understand why that wouldn't work, not to mention nfsiod and other essentials used in /etc/rc, let alone fsck and other anciliaries needed in case of emergency. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/