Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:16:04 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1046895365.ac10e0@mired.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Thanos Tsouanas <thief_grr@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dist and /modules.old Message-ID: <15967.50052.716845.629359@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030228011221.44087.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> <15967.37079.931304.796872@guru.mired.org> <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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In <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> typed: > 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. No, it's used by /stand/sysinstall. It mounts the distribution cdrom on /dist when you go to install further distributions. It apparently creates it as needed - meaning there's no danger in deleting it. Now to put the 4.7 CDROMs away. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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