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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How did you guys (Jordan) do it??
Date: 14 Aug 1995 09:53:47 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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James Seng <jseng@technet.sg> wrote:
>: What is a ton in megabytes?
>
>Weight the 4GB harddisk you have and calculate the number of harddisk
>you need to make a ton. *smile*
:-)
Well, my ``du -sk /usr/release'' didn't complete within 30 seconds,
and i eventually hit INTR, so i cannot really tell'ya how much space
it has consumed... i guess about two or three hundreds megs.
>Back to topic, it seem that there is no way for me to get a shell from
>booting up when booting up from the disk (or is there a way?).
The bottom line is: what's a shell? There's no such thing like a
shell in the boot floppy (i think).
>I find it exteremely useful feature especially when your bootdisk run
>into problem...
Yeah, others too. Look into said Makefile. It contains a rule for a
fixit.flp. Guess why i've been making a release lately? :-) I wanna
test just this stuff...
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)