From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 05:00:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BB11065673; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:00:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2038FC16; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p8N4emqg030775 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:10:54 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <4E7BEA42.4020004@a1poweruser.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:10:47 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <94B70CFD-D1EA-4C64-8384-BBE00185280D@gsoft.com.au> References: <4E7BEA42.4020004@a1poweruser.com> To: Fbsd8 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Spam-Score: -4.391 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions , Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:00:38 -0000 On 23/09/2011, at 11:39, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have installed 9.0 bata2 from cd and the net. In both cases after = the completion of the install and rebooting, the bsdinstall scripts = still remain on the new installed system. If I interpret the code logic = correctly, bsdinstall can ONLY be used for an original install. It's not = intended by design to be used any other time, unlike sysinstall. I think = the "auto" script should have code added to remove all traces of the = bsdinstall environment at the conclusion of the install. This way = bsdinstall fulfills the original design goals and guarantees no one can = exec it by accident and kill there running system. The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at startup. If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your install = media again by accident. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C