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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 1995 03:16:21 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton), chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: General comments on 2.1 install 
Message-ID:  <16718.819371781@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:16:41 %2B0100." <199512190916.KAA02736@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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Gee, guys, I've covered this a couple of times before.  I can't launch the
shell until I chroot or I lose the floppy.  I can't chroot until I've got a
reasonable enough environment to chroot *to* or it's kinda pointless!

That's why it makes the most sense to chroot after I have the root
floppy.  Yes, I agree it's a pain.  Give me some fix for the problem
that clamps down on the root floppy and I'll happily fork off the EHS
any time you like!  It might not be *usable* for anything immediately
(don't forget, there are no `mount' commands or any number of other
things until the root fs is loaded!) but you'll have it.

					Jordan

> As Nik Clayton wrote:
> > 
> >  o I'd like to see the holographic shell appear somewhat earlier in the 
> >    installation.
> 
> Only one comment from me (the rest is left for ...): there's simply no
> shell available earlier.  The boot floppy itself doesn't have a shell.
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)




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