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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:25:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/include paths.h src/rescue Makefile README src/rescue/librescue Makefile src/rescue/rescue Makefile
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030701152526.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030701185047.GD67015@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 01-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:28:05PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> No.  sysinstall copies over /stand and then chroots into the new root
>> for the actual install after it does the newfs.  If you don't copy /stand
>> then installs will fail.  
> 
> Yes, we need a /stand during the install.  But not post install.

Maybe for your machines, not for some machines I work with that use custom
install scripts. :)

>> Please just leave it as is.  /stand is still
>> useful in the scary case that /rescue and normal root get hosed and it
>> doesn't take up very much space anyways.
> 
> Feh. Lets also make /bin2 and /sbin2 incase /[s]bin, /rescue, and /stand
> get messed up.  If you've messed up /[s]bin and /rescue you should give
> up and do a binary reinstall.  /stand waits space and there is now zero
> use for it given /rescue.

Oh, wanh:

1.8M    /stand

This is hardly worth whining over.  /rescue and /stand have different
purposes and you just can't get over that since you are so used to
abusing /stand as a /rescue equivalent and can't understand that /stand
has other purposes besides that.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/



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