Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:55:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1046882392.bb0c0d@mired.org> Cc: Thanos Tsouanas <thief_grr@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dist and /modules.old Message-ID: <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <15967.37079.931304.796872@guru.mired.org> References: <20030228011221.44087.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> <15967.37079.931304.796872@guru.mired.org>
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--GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:39:51AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > /dist is probably (<- means I'm not sure) leftover from the > installation process. It may be used by /stand/sysinstall to mount > things if you run that. I don't think /dist is used by FreeBSD at all. It was probably created by hand or by some other software installed on the system. > /modules.old will be recreated as needed. /dist may not, but should > only cause problems with sysinstall not being able to mount a > distribution. If you never use sysinstall, it won't be a problem. Given the above, it should not affect sysinstall or anything else in FreeBSD. Kris --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+X764Wry0BWjoQKURAnFiAJ99icxm+WSDF0o8VhsziFQ3NIM3BACfUhUH 2WIC27jJOGqdysl7x86Jxqo= =q4LO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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