Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:18:57 -0600 (CST) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.6 Install question (resend) Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970110141738.17957G-100000@dympna> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970110014559.1865A-100000@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David Nugent wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > > >> > How odd... I'll keep that for future reference. > >> > >> OTTMCO. /sbin is, literally, "standalone bin;" it is needed to bring > >> the system up. Everything needed to bring the system up must be in the > >> root filesystem. > > > >I thought it was "Superuser BINaries". (see /usr/sbin) > > Well, I thought it was "system bin", as in system utilities and > programs - programs used for and by the system itself. Hell, I tought it was for dynamically linked (shared) binaries. (usr/sbin) -Rob > > Having mount(8) on a non-root partition is sort of a catch-22. > :-) I can easily understand why that wouldn't work, not to > mention nfsiod and other essentials used in /etc/rc, let alone > fsck and other anciliaries needed in case of emergency. > > > Regards, > > David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia > Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet > davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/ >
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