On 06/17/11 18:17, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2011-Jun-15 23:38:15 +0000, Nathan Whitehorn<nwhiteh...@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
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