cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/include paths.h src/rescue Makefile README src/rescue/librescue Makefile src/rescue/rescue Makefile

Bruce A. Mah bmah at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 1 08:12:24 PDT 2003


If memory serves me right, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> 
> Just a comment...
> 
> > Now that there is zero use of /stand post-install, please add code to
> > sysinstall to rm /stand after it is done with it.  Thanks.
> 
> bmah> Perhaps you mean "please remove the code from sysinstall that copies
> bmah> /stand"?  (Not like I've actually tried this.)
> 
> Maybe not, or don't do that.  /stand is still helpful if base
> distribution is NOT installed, and only the resort for the early stage
> of installation.  We may use /rescue directory for that, but it is
> larger than current /stand directory, hard to putting it onto a floppy
> (yes we have a chance to do that if we disables floppy installation.)

Um...I only meant that sysinstall doesn't need to copy /stand from the
installation media (e.g. mfsroot.flp) during an installation.  /stand
needs to stay on the floppies because as you pointed out, /rescue (at
least in its current form) doesn't fit.

> In theory, we can simply do "rm -rf /stand", but it is not enough to
> say goodbye to /stand directory -- sysinstall(8) assumes that the
> filefile is sitting on /stand/help directory (or sysinstall's source
> code directory, but it should not be there if a user doesn't extract
> source tree).  But it can be easily fixed as you imagined :-)

This is only a problem for invoking sysinstall after an installation.
I'm not sure what's the best way to solve this problem.

Again, I was *not* suggesting that we remove /stand from the floppies.
All I was saying is that the correct way to get rid of /stand on the
root filesystem (should we choose to do this and assuming that certain
details get worked out) is simply not to copy it.

Bruce.
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