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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:14:02 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 
Message-ID:  <5200.964214042@localhost>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:10:25 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211409210.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com> 

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> Is there an optimization in the installer to look for an existing UFS
> filesystem to mount, as I said, *after* the terminal type question is asked
> which is getting spoofed?

Nope - the installer simply writes the MBR, the disk label and then
goes off to newfs each filesystem in turn.  It doesn't attempt to mount
anything unless you explicitly tell it to do so or are doing an
upgrade operation (which is sort of the same thing).

- Jordan


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