svn commit: r223129 - head/release

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 06/17/11 18:17, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2011-Jun-15 23:38:15 +0000, Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>  wrote:
>> Log:
>>   Do not install the rescue tools onto the install CD. Since it is read
>>   only, they are very unlikely to be needed and take up a great deal of
>>   space.
> If I've correctly understood this change, I'm not sure this is a
> positive move.
>
> Based on a quick test, removing /rescue saves about 4MB (in reality,
> the saving should be less because /rescue removes the need for
> /stand).  OTOH, it renders the install CD useless as a recovery
> "fixit" disk - whilst the CD is unlikely to need recovery itself, it
> was useful for recovering hard disks

Since all of our install CDs for 9.0 (even the boot-only ones!) will be 
live CDs, the full versions of everything in /rescue are on the CD in 
their usual locations in /bin, /sbin, etc. and these can be used just as 
well for fixing a system as the /rescue tools.
-Nathan