Subject: Re: New Debian Install - HELP!

[Erik Heil]

Hi their,
If you want to get into a shell, normally its available on the second
VC--at least in in Etch, and I'd assume lenny as well, its a Busybox
implementation.  That is of particular concern to you because its an
extremely restricted environment.  e.g. you are restricted to what
functions are built into the binary.  Just something that you may want to
be aware of.  When in the Busybox shell, typically you're installed system
is mounted under /target or something similar.  So what you end up having
is an extremely limited environment in which to perform system tasks.  Its
intended to be used in situations where Bash or another shell is not
available either for space considerations, or where you have a very broken
system and you can't access the filesystem where bash is mounted.
--Erik

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Dan Massingale wrote:

> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:03:44 -0600
> From: Dan Massingale <danmass at valornet.com>
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>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Subject: Re: New Debian Install - HELP!
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> With the raid thing you might check the lilo.conf for a line that talks
> about the helpful raid thing it does, it may have somehow been
> uncommented. Also with the debian etch install disc the menu offers a
> shell, I don't remember how far you need to be in the install process to
> get the choice for a shell but that is there also.
>
>
>
> Dan
>
> Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Well for now, I have lilo installed but for some reason, it doesn't
>
> > work right either. In the mean time, I booted with my slackware cd,
>
> > got into a shell and am trying to run lilo with a chroot to update the
>
>
> > lilo.conf file. But now I get a faital error about raid_setup. god
>
> > knows what's going on here. What does raid_setup got to do with lilo?
>
> >
>
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