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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!rzg.mpg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!bos-muenchen.de!42.org!sec From: sec@matrix.42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How does the Emergency holographic shell work? Date: 29 May 1997 00:07:18 +0200 Organization: Internet@home Lines: 20 Message-ID: <slrn5opb4m.r93.sec@matrix.42.org> References: <338C8454.944CF300@indigo.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: matrix.42.org X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-2 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41795 Re, In article <338C8454.944CF300@indigo.ie>, Marcus Keane wrote: > > If I boot to a bootfloppy ( created from boot.flp in floppies) there is > the option to start an emergency holographic shell. If I go to the shell > I get a # prompt. Is this a normalish bourne shell or something else? No > commands seems to work.(mount, ls, etc.) Any hints on how to use this > shell? Yes this is a normal /bin/sh, but you have very few commands, look around on the disk, to find out what actually is there (iirc mount should be there somewhere) - for ls you can also use "echo *" :) CU, Sec -- Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling Error 0: No error