As the topic says.. Just the other day I was on a minimal-2007.0-livecd and noticed that /bin/busybox.static symlink existed but busybox did not. I forget why right now but I really needed the real busybox from a livecd. busybox is a swiss army knife that is very useful in rescue/recovery. Please stop excluding it from the installed runtime system. "Actually not sure why it did not show up.. being that livecd's use mdev.."
The CD uses mdev in the initramfs, which *does* contain busybox. Once it switched to the loopback image, the CD is using udev and the initramfs is no longer accessible.
So, how about I just add a "bb" alias or something for "debug" which drops you immediately into the initramfs/busybox, since there's really no need for busybox *twice* on the CD. Either that, or we can just document it and be done with it.
Solar, do you like Chris proposal?
Not really. What happens in the case of making it a boot option is that you would loose job control and or might not be able to access all of the commands when you really need them.
I've added busybox to the admincd specs.
20:08 <+CIA-132> jmbsvicetto proj/releng:master * rd2aab6d0 /releases/weekly/specs/ (amd64/installcd-stage1.spec x86/installcd-stage1.spec): Add busybox to the amd64/x86 installcd specs - bug 189286.
22:58 <+CIA-1> jmbsvicetto proj/releng:master * r52b5a70d /releases/weekly/specs/ (5 files in 5 dirs): Added busybox to the remaining install-cd stages - fixes bug 189286.
This should be fixed now, so I'm going to close it. @solar: let me know if there's anything still missing.
