Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 14:28:05 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/include paths.h src/rescue Makefile README src/rescue/librescue Makefile src/rescue/rescue Makefile Message-ID: <XFMail.20030701142805.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030701151216.GA13805@intruder.bmah.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 01-Jul-2003 Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Makoto Matsushita wrote: >> >> Just a comment... >> >> > Now that there is zero use of /stand post-install, please add code to >> > sysinstall to rm /stand after it is done with it. Thanks. >> >> bmah> Perhaps you mean "please remove the code from sysinstall that copies >> bmah> /stand"? (Not like I've actually tried this.) >> >> Maybe not, or don't do that. /stand is still helpful if base >> distribution is NOT installed, and only the resort for the early stage >> of installation. We may use /rescue directory for that, but it is >> larger than current /stand directory, hard to putting it onto a floppy >> (yes we have a chance to do that if we disables floppy installation.) > > Um...I only meant that sysinstall doesn't need to copy /stand from the > installation media (e.g. mfsroot.flp) during an installation. /stand > needs to stay on the floppies because as you pointed out, /rescue (at > least in its current form) doesn't fit. No. sysinstall copies over /stand and then chroots into the new root for the actual install after it does the newfs. If you don't copy /stand then installs will fail. Please just leave it as is. /stand is still useful in the scary case that /rescue and normal root get hosed and it doesn't take up very much space anyways. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.20030701142805.jhb>