Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:44:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: steve@news.netdtw.com (Steve Corso) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel & fixit diskette (fwd) Message-ID: <199509121744.KAA21937@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9509120752.A13502-0100000@news.NetDTW.com> from "Steve Corso" at Sep 12, 95 07:53:48 am
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> I am trying to make a fixit diskette that contains inetd along with the > other normal stuff. > > I have been pretty much done it except I cannot figure out two items: > > 1. How do you crunch the actual kernel itself? The Makefile I have does > not do this. It is gzip'pped; the loader understands this. It is a problem for systems with instruction cache choherency problems (like old Cyrix); it can be corrected with binvd's in the decompressor, but is a real pain. > 2. How do you establish your identify when you boot single user? I ask this > because rlogin (off the fixit) reports that it does not know its user > name, and, a rlogin -l xxx does not resolve the issue. By logging in. I know, this is an odd answer. The problem is that the user is retrieved from information initialized by login, but you have not really used login when you boot into a shell in single user mode. You will either have to rewrite the user name retrieval in rlogin, or try the login command at the prompt (assuming you can fit it on your disk). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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