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[wanderer]

hi wiak

everything working fine for me
using the 32 bit version

wow this is really cool

thanks

wanderer

[rockedge]

you caught my attention...so I am going to set up what you have built.

Looks interesting and I will report if successful..

[wiak]

[Keef]

Been playing with this on Fatdog, and all working nicely.
In case it is useful to know, sh is a symlink to dash, so behaves differently to bash - no command history, and backspace and arrow keys don't work etc.
If you install and use bash, you will have to 'exit' twice - first from bash, then from the original shell.
I've installed 'base-system', plus mc, nnn, nano and lynx.

[rockedge]

I created a directory next to a group of frugal puppies called /FirstRib and I put the scripts into it, ran the build, 64 bit.
looks to be successful and was done quickly on the Bionic64-v8 host system

then put both mount and unmount scripts into /FirstRib and ran the mount script and it worked. I used your examples and installed bash and file then used the exit command and ran the unmount script. And added the user root and webuser:webgroup

I then ran the mount script again and the command prompt reflected the bash being installed as noted in the screenshot

[rockedge]

I can't backspace and if I resize the terminal window it pulls lots of prompts. And I get a permission denied /usr/bin/bash...... but I am starting to get the hang of it and will see what I can do with system

[wanderer]

i installed the x system
and it loaded fine

dropped to console
and mounted

but trying to run startx
says it cant find mcookie

tried to download mcookie
but says not found

wanderer

[wiak]

@wanderer:

Yes, xorg-minimal will install okay. However, since you are running in a chroot, you already have X on your host system. Running X on FirstRib itself will only become relevant if and when FirstRib is booted to run on its own rather than in a chroot (i.e. when an initramfs/initrd with suitable init is written for it). I will work on an initramfs for FirstRib, but I'm busy on other matters just now, so that will be a while in coming. For now, please enjoy using FirstRib commandline mode only, setting up multiple users and whatever (or read up on how to build an initramfs from scratch - there are tutorials out there) - we will deal with how to start X on boot in Void once that initramfs module appears.

wiak

[wanderer]

thanks wiak

i will keep playing

really cool

wanderer

[wiak]

[wiak]

I'd be interested to know if FirstRib is working from a tinycore/microcore wanderer. It should I expect.

wiak

[wanderer]

hi wiak

ill try it in core
and report

wanderer

[wanderer]

hi wiak

the script ran in tinycore

but couldnt make or find some directories
even as root

i think it is a permissions issue

will keep playing and report

wanderer

[wiak]

Hi again Keef and rockedge,

Creating /etc/passwd and /etc/group prior to installing dash or bash seemed to work (history and backspace). But see my note about issue if trying to remove them thereafter in my previous post to you:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1029192#1029192

Problem is, that /bin/sh no longer exists as a symlink after removing bash or dash. So what you need to do in that case is re-create the original /bin/sh symlink to /bin/busybox (actually it's in /usr/bin but /bin is itself a symbolic link to that):

[wiak]

I think you'd maybe need to be root user when building/running FirstRib from tinycore wanderer. i.e. su (or sudo su) to root first.

wiak