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By the way, since I will likely be writing two initds, one lightweight one for the initrd (foreplay, as mentioned previously), and a bigger one for my distro, I was thinking about its name too.
Largely Generalized Barely Transactional Quest +
That's the working title. Yes, the binary name will contain the +. Aliases are a thing if that's a problem.
Now this is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar far far away. dinit will serve me fine for quite a while.
Also, I will slowly start publishing my current experiments. I'll call the repo fuck/fuckery.
Soo... I currently have:
/etc layered on top of NetBSD's etcdinit booting into a system that has getty on constty for root loginI basically have all the tools to make a bootable system that then I can use to develop itself. It's not there yet, because at a minimum, I need a network, and either ssh or git. Since ssh is in the NetBSD base, that's a whole lot easier.
With ssh, I can TRAMP into the system and edit the code. I can't commit locally, but I can edit things remotely, and that's good enough.
...except I don't have a user yet. Oops.
Next steps are:
/var from persistence, union mounted over NetBSD's /vargit
Install bonfire.cafe
Get the full app experience
re: mouse makes rocks do math (fuckboi edition)
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multi layer mounting