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

[John Baldwin]

On 01-Jul-2003 Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> 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.

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.  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.

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