14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
11:21 a.m.
On 12/14/2011 02:11 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
I get them all the time at "apt-get install" and the like on my Debian
box at work.
Then don't run Debian. ;) I run Ubuntu (yes I know, Debian-based)
and I've NEVER seen such a "wizard" pop up, in probably two hundred runs
of "apt-get install".
In 18 years of Unix I still have to see a proper implemented Linux
single user mode on any distribution. Single user mode is:
1. Execute kernel.
2. Kernel mounts / read-only.
3. Kernel creates /sbin/init process with PID 1.
4. init(8) invokes /bin/sh on /dev/console.
5. root prompt and _nothing_ more. Especially no mount of any file
systems other then /-read-only.
Oh hell, SunOS4 (the BSD-based one!) doesn't even do that! It mounts
the filesystems before giving you a single-user shell.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Mysterious "configuration
wizards" layered on top of standard Unix configuration files,
Not seen that.
no real single user mode,
A Debian issue not an
Ubuntu one, no?