Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:05:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Astonishingly stupid question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9905191004250.2008-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <199905190922.RAA44161@netrinsics.com>
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Michael Robinson wrote: > Let's just say, for the sake of discussion, someone wanted to experiment > with a new environment based right on top of the raw BSD kernel. Would > anything go horribly wrong if that person replaced /sbin/init with something > like a properly configured Python interpreter and rebooted the system? > > Just hypothetically speaking, of course. > > -Michael Robinson That should work fine. FYI, the install disk does this. /sbin/init is replaced by the installation sofware. Beware that your /sbin/init may have to do some system setup stuff itself (like configuring network interfaces, mounting other filesystems). Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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