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

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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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Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-09-13 12:20 +0200
  Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-09-13 12:50 +0200
  Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-13 12:50 +0200
    Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-09-13 14:00 +0200
  Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-13 17:40 +0200
  Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-09-13 20:10 +0200
    Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-14 11:50 +0200
      Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-14 16:20 +0200
        Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-14 20:30 +0200
          Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-14 20:50 +0200
            Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-15 18:40 +0200
              Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-09-15 20:50 +0200
                Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-16 04:40 +0200
                Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-09-16 06:10 +0200
      Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-09-14 19:20 +0200
        Re: Use of ^Hi^Hn^Hs^Ht^Ha^Hl^Hl^He^Hr^H'^Hs interactive shells on  tty1-tty4 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-09-14 20:00 +0200

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