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Eelco Dolstra 1e87e75d07 * Use sysvinit's init to start the system. This has the happy
side-effect of initialising the console properly (i.e., enabling
  Ctrl-[C, Z]).

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=801
2004-02-18 10:56:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f7a8c8ae9 * Started setting up a proper init environment.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=785
2004-02-16 09:41:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e019265ec9 * Scripts to set up and run the absolute minimal pure Nix
environment; that is, an operating system environment in which there
  is (essentially) only a store.

  The script `make-disk.sh' creates an ext2 disk image, creates a Nix
  store in it, and copies the closure of the bash package (from
  nixpkgs) to it.  The script `run.sh' then starts bash in a UML
  virtual machine.

  The contents of the image after creation look like this:

  $ ls -l
  drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 2004-02-14 19:13 dev
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           61 2004-02-14 23:34 init -> /nix/store/e40873ece7a010752ad72b4262b23d28-bash-2.05b/bin/sh
  drwx------    2 root     root        12288 2004-02-14 19:13 lost+found
  drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 2004-02-14 19:13 nix
  drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 2004-02-14 19:13 proc
  drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         1024 2004-02-14 19:13 tmp

  The next step is to add all the other stuff that goes into a working
  system (coreutils, etc.).  BTW, if you don't have `ls' you can still
  list directories by doing `echo *' :-)

  Nix itself should also be Nixified so that it can be put into the
  store.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=783
2004-02-14 22:56:51 +00:00