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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:53:39 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Useful tools missing from /rescue
Message-ID:  <20071101155339.GA6490@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071017220421.GD25575@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <20070901073440.GL85633@comp.chem.msu.su> <46DAFE5C.6070806@freebsd.org> <20070903120353.GH30502@comp.chem.msu.su> <200709261028.43378.jhb@freebsd.org> <20071004022344.GA60878@dragon.NUXI.org> <20071013060138.GA14388@comp.chem.msu.su> <20071015173826.GA88628@dragon.NUXI.org> <20071017220421.GD25575@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:04:21AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:38:26AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I guess I'm not creative enough in the ways I've screwed up my systems
> > and needed tools from /rescue. 8-)
>
> Just try to installworld FreeBSD/amd64 over a running FreeBSD/i386. ;-)

I strongly feel that shouldn't be supported on a live system.  So to me
it shouldn't be an excuse to put a duplicated copy of /usr/[s]bin into
/rescue.

It is a delicate thing to get right - and there are easy ways to do it
today:

Boot from disc1; mount / and /usr; mv /mnt/etc /mnt/etc.hold; rm -rf the
bits in bin,sbin,libexec; then run the install.sh from the disc1; mv
/mnt/etc /mnt/etc.new ; mv /mnt/etc.hold /mnt/etc

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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