very current won't mount /tmp

Rob MacGregor freebsd.macgregor at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Apr 15 23:16:54 PDT 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Simon 
> L. Nielsen
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't installworld just feed some
> data into /dev/random before it start to install stuff?  Or would that
> degrade entropy on running systems?

Actually, I'd go with - why can't /dev/random be "fed" as the last thing
that happens before single user mode?  I think that otherwise it's going
to bite people who have to use single user mode for a recovery, but
don't remember that they have to feed /dev/random.

I'm kinda hoping that's already on the plan :)

-- 
 Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards! 



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