On Tuesday 05 October 2004 11:38 am, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 16:29, David Gilbert wrote: > > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org> writes: > > > > Tim> /stand is largely defunct. It is, I believe, still used to > > Tim> bootstrap the CD-ROM installation, but has no particular purpose > > Tim> after that point. > > > > I was always confused with sysinstall being in /stand. I always > > understood /stand as executables that ran from the loader. The > > "standalone environment." > > > > Dave. > > Right now, /stand is installed from sysinstall, and used, at last, > from /etc/rc.d/initdiskless. /stand is installed as part of the installation process. Basically, sysinstall starts off by letting you partition your disks. Once that is done, it mounts everything under /mnt, then copies the /stand off of the mfsroot to /mnt/stand and finally chroots into mnt for the rest of the install. It copies /stand so that it can still get to the utilities in /stand that it needs while it does the actual install. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 14:52:29 UTC
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