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To: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
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Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> types:
> * On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:59:44PM -0600,
> * Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1013144385.29174d@mired.org> wrote:
> > to frequently. Compare this to unix, where all you need is the kernel,
> > init, sh and ed - and sufficiently clever people may be able to do it
> > without init.
> Just being interessted, how are you able to start sh without having
> init? I tried "set init_path=/bin/sh" in the loader but that didn't
> work.

I said "may" because I'm not sure it's possible.

> Another question, / is mounted read-only, how to remount it read-write
> without having mount?

Good point. I overlooked needing to remount root.

	<mike
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