Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:12:56 -0800 (PST) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: chuckr@mat.net Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <199811112312.PAA16909@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111802590.10145-100000@picnic.mat.net> (message from Chuck Robey on Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:04:15 -0500 (EST))
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* No, you forget, there's 2 reasons to have things in /. One, they're * needed for boot. Two, they qualify as emergency repair tools. * Diskalbel falls into the 2nd category (note I agree with Nate's original * position here). And the bootblocks might be needed for emergency repair. Consider, if you have a disk that's failing all over the place, you managed to boot single-user from it (or booted from a floppy) and mounted root, you now need to somehow set up a bootable FreeBSD installation on your second hard drive. You are toast if the bootblocks are in the broken /usr. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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