very current won't mount /tmp

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:40 pm, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:19:41PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > On 2004.04.15 23:08:33 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > > > I think updating UPDATING is a good idea. I tried "feed
> > > > > /dev/random" and it couldn't find "feed". What are we
> > > > > supposed to do to get installworld to work?
> > > >
> > > > echo foo > /dev/random
> > >
> > > The correct command is "echo food >/dev/random".  ;)
> >
> > 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?
>
> This won't "fix" everything.  I first faced with it trying to vi(1)
> in single-user mode.
>

Maybe not, but my installworld worked :). I also hit it with vi but 
assumed I was hitting the other /tmp problem. By that time, I had to 
worry about booting to XP and finishing my income taxes for 2003. 

Kent

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