I deleted /stand/, but I need it again for diskless boot...

[Ryan Sommers]

Rob wrote:

> Thanks. I have done all that and the master PC is compiling (it's a slow
> system, taking almost a day to compile world). I'll report the results
> soon.
>
> If successful, will you suggest/submit this as an official patch for 5.3;
> or will it be merely a personal patch for my diskless setup?
>
> If it's going into 5.3, then /stand should be removed altogether after
> the install process!
>
> Rob.

I doubt it will make it into 5.3. This isn't really a bug fix (yet). I 
posted a thread in arch@ about it and every response was enthusiastic, 
so I imagine it will be committed to 6-CURRENT. Once I have a chance to 
cleanup the rest of the diskless helper scripts it could be added to 
RELENG_5 because it will be a bug fix (since our provided scripts are 
heavily out of date for building diskless root's).

It's definately too late to have /stand be removed as part of the 5.3 
process, although this is where I plan to head once I remove diskless 
systems from depending on /stand. However, that doesn't mean people 
won't be able to remove /stand, just that it won't be automated.

Just remember, you'll have to rebuild your NFS mounted root partition 
(or just copy /bin/gzip to it). And after you can also remove 
/usr/bin/gzip to clean up your system.

-- 
Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com