From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 12:19:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA29904 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from junior.lgc.com (junior.lgc.com [134.132.72.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA29898 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from dympna by junior.lgc.com (8.6.9/lgc.1.26) id OAA19149; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:20:58 -0600 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:18:57 -0600 (CST) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@dympna To: 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 Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David Nugent wrote: > 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. Hell, I tought it was for dynamically linked (shared) binaries. (usr/sbin) -Rob > > 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/ >