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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't install 2.1 over SL/IP (bummer)
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> 
> >  Also, I'd like to argue for the return of the "emergency shell"
> > which I found very helpful in the past (something like, pressing
> > cntrl-A could get you the emergency shell, if it could be done...)
> 
> Not only were you looking at the wrong code, but it doesn't even look
> like you're installing 2.1 here!
> 
> The emergency holographic shell, as it's called, is prominently announced
> in 2.1!
> 
> 						Jordan
> 

 Yes, but it is a shell that chroot'd to the /mnt directory (the
hard disk) and doesn't let me see/affect what is in the MFS.

 A few revisions ago, when the install was still a shell script,
I could escape into a shell that wasn't chroot'd, make corrections to
the install shell script and restart the install process.  This is how
I worked around similar problems in the past.

 Granted, that wouldn't work very well now, since:

	1) The tools probably aren't lying around in the mfs to
	   do even basic editing.

	2) The install isn't a shell script anymore.


  So - you see, I was installing 2.1; and I'm aware of the "holographic
shell" - it's just now what I was asking for.

	- Dave Rivers -