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Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4



On Sun 13 Sep 2020 at 05:15:38 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells
> on tty1-tty4?
> 
> All I've found are passing mentions in
>   https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s03.en.html
>   https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.en.html

I doubt anyone has bothered to write it. What is there to say:

. it runs ash IIRC so that's probably documented somewhere,
. TAB works for completion,
. ↑↓ work for history,
. there's help,
. / is the installation filesystem which eventually evaporates,
. /target, when it appears, is the future installed system,
. most utilities are really just incantations of busybox, so
.. they're limited in functionality,
.. they lack lots of options
. use introspection to find out more.

AIUI VC4 is what will appear in /var/log/installer/syslog and
maybe the partitioning stuff (which I never do in the d-i).
I've never had to use the shell in VC1, but I assume it's
basically the same as VC2/3.

Cheers,
David.


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