Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:30:23 GMT From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/161048: bsdinstall should run a concurrent shell on another vt Message-ID: <201110070730.p977UN9B025582@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/161048; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/161048: bsdinstall should run a concurrent shell on another vt Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:25:32 +0300 On 2011-09-27, Ben Kaduk wrote: > Per Brett Glass's mail to -current on 25 September 2011, it would be > useful to have a shell available at any point during the installer. > Though there is an option to drop to a shell at a couple of points, > there are other places where it could be useful. I have an experimental patch to start bsdinstall on ttyv8. "Live CD" is usable on ttyv0-ttyv7 during the installation. The patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/bsdinstall-getty.3.diff -- Jaakko
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