Re: Useful tools missing from /rescue

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:04:21AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:38:26AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I guess I'm not creative enough in the ways I've screwed up my systems
> > and needed tools from /rescue. 8-)
>
> Just try to installworld FreeBSD/amd64 over a running FreeBSD/i386. ;-)

I strongly feel that shouldn't be supported on a live system.  So to me
it shouldn't be an excuse to put a duplicated copy of /usr/[s]bin into
/rescue.

It is a delicate thing to get right - and there are easy ways to do it
today:

Boot from disc1; mount / and /usr; mv /mnt/etc /mnt/etc.hold; rm -rf the
bits in bin,sbin,libexec; then run the install.sh from the disc1; mv
/mnt/etc /mnt/etc.new ; mv /mnt/etc.hold /mnt/etc

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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