From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 10: 5:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56F21151E8 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10k9mo-0000Ng-00; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:05:42 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:05:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Astonishingly stupid question In-Reply-To: <199905190922.RAA44161@netrinsics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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