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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD
Date: 28 Aug 1995 03:39:00 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de>, Hans Wander <awan@hathor.mch.sni.de> wrote:
>
>PS: I think the installation method of Slackware to be much more
>flexible than FreeBSD install: I can spawn a shell on a second
>virtual screen with all shell facilities, even nfs mount a remote
>Linux machine and execute commands locally not yet available.
Try Alt-F4 during the 2.0.5 installation process. It
automatically fires up an emergency holographic shell on that console
for you to fiddle with. Yes, you can even play around with it while
the installer is copying files to your disk in the main console.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org