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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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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

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