Re: very current won't mount /tmp

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:40:07 +0300
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:19:41PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.04.15 23:08:33 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > > I think updating UPDATING is a good idea. I tried "feed /dev/random" and 
> > > > it couldn't find "feed". What are we supposed to do to get installworld 
> > > > to work?
> > > 
> > > echo foo > /dev/random
> > > 
> > The correct command is "echo food >/dev/random".  ;)
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't installworld just feed some
> data into /dev/random before it start to install stuff?  Or would that
> degrade entropy on running systems?
> 
This won't "fix" everything.  I first faced with it trying to vi(1)
in single-user mode.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 20:40:10 UTC

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