Subject: Re: Minimum booting system
To: Andrew Herdman <apollo@io.org>
From: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 04/30/1995 22:02:13
Andrew Herdman has randomly hit several keys, resulting in

> slow.  I am wondering what would be required for a minimum single user 
> boot system that I can use the installer to install, and use cpin to copy 
> the large main tarfile into the unix filesystem for extraction their.  
> This is my guess for what I need:
> 
> /netbsd
> /bin/sh
> /bin/ls
> /bin/mv
> /bin/rm
> /bin/df
> /usr/bin/tar

 You'll need /etc and /sbin, especially /sbin/init

> it's built in.  I'm also curious if anything from /usr/lib should be 
> included as I believe most of everything may be compiled using shared 
> libraries these days.

 The stuff in /bin doesn't. tar probably does, so you'll libc.so.something,
I suppose

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