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| - | Having booted your computer you should be greated with a motd (which stands for "Message of the Day") and the shell prompt, `/home/# `. | + | Having booted your computer you should be greeted with a motd (which stands for "Message of the Day") and the shell prompt, `/home/# `. |
| {{first_boot.png?nolink&600}} | {{first_boot.png?nolink&600}} | ||
| - | The computer at this point is usable and, assuming you have an hdd in the case of the computer, you have writable storage space to create files. However you've only booted the system using the OpenOS floppy disk. In other words, your current directory is read-only; i.e. you cannot create or modify files in your current directory. | + | The computer at this point is usable and, assuming you have a [[item:hard_disk_drive|hard drive]] in the [[block:computer_case|case]] of the computer, you have writable storage space to create files. However you've only booted the system using the [[item:openos_floppy|OpenOS floppy disk]]. In other words, your current directory is read-only; i.e. you cannot create or modify files in your current directory. |
| To list what filesystems are available, run `mount` | To list what filesystems are available, run `mount` | ||
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| - mount point | - mount point | ||
| - | The second column, following the word "on", informs the user where in the directory tree the filesystem is mounted. This is also known as the mount point. The filesystem mounted on "/" is also known as the "rootfs" (or root filesystem). The rootfs is the mount point of the filesystem that booted the computer. If you have installed an operating system you'll find its system files in the directory tree below /, and not in other mount points. | + | The second column, following the word "on", informs the user where in the directory tree the filesystem is mounted. This is also known as the mount point. The filesystem mounted on "/" is also known as the "rootfs" (or root filesystem). The rootfs is the mount point of the filesystem that booted the computer. If you have installed an operating system you'll find its system files in the directory tree below `/`. |
| - read/write access | - read/write access | ||
| - | The third column shows either "(ro)", which stands for "read-only", or "(rw)", which stands for "read/write". OpenOS only supports these two access permissions, and they are filesystem wide (as opposed to more modern filesystems that have separate permissions per directory and per file even under the same filesystem mount point). Note here, in this image, that the rootfs is mounted read-only. This is because I have booted the computer with an OpenOS loot disk floppy, and floppies are read-only filesystems. | + | The third column shows either "(ro)", which stands for "read-only", or "(rw)", which stands for "read/write". OpenOS only supports these two access permissions and they are filesystem wide (as opposed to more modern filesystems that have separate permissions per directory and per file even under the same filesystem mount point). In this image we see that the rootfs is mounted read-only. This is because I have booted the computer with an OpenOS floppy disk, and [[item:loot_disks|loot floppy disks]] are read-only filesystems. |
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| In case the name of the access (ro vs rw) was not clear, you cannot modify or create files in a filesystem mounted read-only. | In case the name of the access (ro vs rw) was not clear, you cannot modify or create files in a filesystem mounted read-only. | ||
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| - label | - label | ||
| - | The last column displays the filesystem's label or the filesystem's component address in the case it has no label. Loot disks always have their loot disk name as the filesystem label. You may notice that the filesystem mounted on /mnt/0e7/ in my example has a very long "label, which is actually the component address. In this game I am using a brand new tier 1 hard drive, which doesn't have a label yet, and thus its label display is long and causes the terminal to wrap the text. | + | The last column displays the filesystem's label or the filesystem's component address in the case it has no label. [[item:loot_disks|Loot disks]] always have their loot disk name as the filesystem label. You may notice that the filesystem mounted on `/mnt/0e7/` in my example has a very long "label". This is because I am using a brand new tier 1 hard drive which doesn't have a label yet and thus its address is displayed which causes the terminal to wrap the text. |
| - | You may also notice that a few of the filesystems are mounted multiple times. The behavior of OpenOS is to automatically mount filesystems in the /mnt directory, with the first 3 or more unique letters of its address at the directory name. Some components get a special mount location, such as the filesystem that booted the system. In this case, the floppy disk on /mnt/bc3/ is the boot filesystem, and thus is the rootfs (on /). To help make the listing of `mount` more readable, I programmed it to sort the listing by address. | + | You may also notice that a few of the filesystems are mounted multiple times. The behavior of OpenOS is to automatically mount filesystems in the /mnt directory, with the first 3 or more unique letters of its address as the directory name. Some components get a special mount location, such as the filesystem that booted the system. In this case, the floppy disk on /mnt/bc3/ is the boot filesystem, and thus is the rootfs (on /). To help make the listing more readable, `mount` sorts the listing by address. |
| We learn from this image that the rootfs is read-only. This reminds me that I have booted from a loot disk, and that I have not yet installed OpenOS to my hard drive. The computer would fail to boot were I to remove the floppy. | We learn from this image that the rootfs is read-only. This reminds me that I have booted from a loot disk, and that I have not yet installed OpenOS to my hard drive. The computer would fail to boot were I to remove the floppy. | ||
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| - | You can enter y or just press enter (the uppercase "Y" in the [Y/n] notation informs you that "Y" is the default answer if an empty line is entered). After you confirm the install, you'll see a verbose listing of all the files being copied to your hard drive. When the installation is complete `install` confirms you are ready to reboot the system. When the system reboots, your rootfs will be the hard drive you just installed OpenOS to. | + | You can enter y or just press **ENTER** (the uppercase "Y" in the [Y/n] notation informs you that "Y" is the default answer if an empty line is entered). After you confirm the install, you'll see a verbose listing of all the files being copied to your hard drive. When the installation is complete `install` confirms you are ready to reboot the system. When the system reboots, your rootfs will be the hard drive you just installed OpenOS to. |
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