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Subject: Re: bin/161048: bsdinstall should run a concurrent shell on another
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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