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[John Baldwin]

On 07-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:25:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On 01-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:28:05PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> >> 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.  
>> > 
>> > Yes, we need a /stand during the install.  But not post install.
>> 
>> Maybe for your machines, not for some machines I work with that use custom
>> install scripts. :)
> 
> Oh, for a local TWC'ism.  Stock FreeBSD should not be required to support
> rare localisms.

David,

Whether you like it or not, having FreeBSD be friendly to being
deployed as the OS in "smart devices" is good for FreeBSD's future,
not bad.  I strongly do not wish to have to maintain a TWCBSD fork
and strongly try to minimize the differences between what we use
and what is stock.  I don't commit every hack we use, but I don't
see a legitimate reason for blowing away /stand during installs.
Go ahead and be pig-headed if you want though.  If the consensus
is that /stand should go then I guess that will be Yet Another Local
Patch.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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