From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 19 03:21:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA09122 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 03:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA09117 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 03:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA16720; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 03:16:22 -0800 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:16:41 +0100." <199512190916.KAA02736@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 03:16:21 -0800 Message-ID: <16718.819371781@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)