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.
