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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:53:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get a shell from sysinstall
Message-ID:  <199509290553.WAA00669@everest>
In-Reply-To: <21114.812327919@utis156.cs.utwente.nl> from "Andras Olah" at Sep 28, 95 11:38:39 pm

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> I'm trying to install 2.1.0-950726-SNAP from floppies, but because I've
> got access to a un*x machine, I wrote the floppies with tar.  I thought
> that I would be able to manually extract the distributions by hand and
> then proceed with the installation.  The problem is that I can't get a
> shell to issue the magic tar command (and I know that tar is there because I
> can see the commands used by sysinstall on the second screen.)

A chroot shell is started on your 4th virtual console at some point
during the install - you can switch to it with Alt-F4.




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