From: hamish@bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald) Subject: Re: Linux-0.95 Date: 9 Mar 1992 15:22:08 GMT
>>>>> On 8 Mar 92 14:43:12 GMT,
>>>>> In message <1992Mar8.144312.19393@klaava.Helsinki.FI>,
>>>>> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) wrote:
Linus> Bash is even bigger
Linus> It's really a bummer to boot up from floppies: bash takes a
Linus> long time to load. Bash is also now so big that I couldn't fit
Linus> compress and tar onto the root-floppy: You'll probably want the
Linus> old rootimage-0.12 just in order to get tar+compress onto your
Linus> harddisk. If anybody has pointers to a simple shell that is
Linus> freely distributable, it might be a good idea to use that for
Linus> the root-diskette.
Byron Ratzikis' version of "rc". I believe that it is freely
distributable.
You can ask for information from the mailing list at
"rc@archone.tamu.edu".