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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What is the /stand directory? Date: 17 Jan 1995 02:15:52 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3ff98o$6fd@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <3f890vINN1f2@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <3fcht6$dac@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <3fcht6$dac@sundog.tiac.net>, Richard E. Nickle <rick@vox.trystero.com> wrote: >The purpose of stand is to have a 'standalone' directory where >you can boot your system into single user mode (without mounting >/usr, and other filesystems) and still have a workable system >that you can poke around with. No, that's what /bin and /sbin are for. >[context deleted] >And maybe these reasons (which seem weird to me, but maybe someone >can elaborate) >[all wrong] The purpose of /stand is to have a place to put the massive crunched binary which is the only program on the install floppy (which, by the way, is stored compressed on the floppy). The programs themselves were selected according to the requirements of the installation mechanism itself. Once you have the system installed, you can safely delete this directory. See /usr/src/release for the code responsible for doing all of this. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant