From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 29 16:32:07 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA08903 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 16:32:07 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA08887; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 16:31:58 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06095; Thu, 29 Dec 94 18:29:03 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9412300029.AA06095@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: It's time to release.. The worms! Hahahahaha! To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 18:29:03 -0600 (CST) Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9412292304.AA09583@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Dec 29, 94 05:04:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 878 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Could check for the existence of /usr/bin, if not there, mount /usr. Still > I would have thought you would have needed to start the network, first! > > Boyd You're right, I was thinking of totally-diskless (which I happen to be working on, as we speak). By the way, someone pass the funny looking hat, I used Sun tar to extract the bindist on my SunOS box, and it dropped all the character special devices - I ended up with all sorts of 0-byte reg files all over /dev. Thing is, I didn't notice for quite a while... :-) Was quite interesting, as I could _see_ that it was getting into init, but it was just hanging.. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - The Data Capture Fellow (and UNIX/Network Hacker) 414/362-3617 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com