If memory serves me right, Mark Murray wrote: > Andrew Thompson writes: > > > SOME_COMMAND should have output entropy proportional to the seriousness > > > of your threat model. For messing around at home, 'ls -alR /etc /var' is > > > probably OK. > > > > > > Something like 'echo foo' will work, but will start your RNG in a known > > > insecure state. > > > > > > > Ok. The build instructions may need to be updated, or I can see a lot of us > ers > > crying that their installworld has frozen. [snip] > Yeah, we are on it! Thanks for the interest! Hey Mark-- At some point, please remember the case of new installs. I've been trying to bootstrap a laptop to a new CURRENT from CD-ROM and I had newfs [1] hanging on me because of this problem. I was able to kickstart the random device from an emergency holographic shell but this *needs* to be fixed before 5.3. Thanks! Bruce. [1] I think. Something that happens after the fdisk and bsdlabel steps but before extracting distributions.
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