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Error in finnix-halt ?


  1. mcason
    Member

    Is this correct in finnix-halt
    #!/bin/ash

    Posted Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:40:15 -0700

  2. rfinnie
    Administrator

    ash is a lightweight shell, and the only shell available in busybox. finnix-halt will re-exec itself with /busybin/ash (which is on the ramdisk), so the main root filesystem can be umounted, which allows the CD to be ejected before halt. That's why ash is used instead of bash.

    Posted Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:00:53 -0700

  3. mcason
    Member

    Ok, I understand now. I had already changed it to bash, but since I do not use the eject function I have not noticed any problems. So far, I have "aptitude purge"'d several packages I do not need, including ash, perl, python, apt, e2fsprogs, etc... I now have a ISO size of 67MB (and counting) :)

    Posted Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:40:27 -0700