Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:53:51 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get a shell from sysinstall Message-ID: <199509290553.WAA00669@everest> In-Reply-To: <21114.812327919@utis156.cs.utwente.nl> from "Andras Olah" at Sep 28, 95 11:38:39 pm
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> I'm trying to install 2.1.0-950726-SNAP from floppies, but because I've > got access to a un*x machine, I wrote the floppies with tar. I thought > that I would be able to manually extract the distributions by hand and > then proceed with the installation. The problem is that I can't get a > shell to issue the magic tar command (and I know that tar is there because I > can see the commands used by sysinstall on the second screen.) A chroot shell is started on your 4th virtual console at some point during the install - you can switch to it with Alt-F4.
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