I apologize if this is the wrong place for this, but I'm trying to understand an issue I'm running into. For educational purposes, I'm trying to install Crux 3.2 onto a ramdisk, naturally I know everything will disappear upon reboot, but I'm not worried about that - i'm just trying to see what can be done. Going from the Official Crux 3.2 install guide, I go through all the same steps I generally follow, except to establish /mnt I do: mount -t tmpfs -o size=8gb tmpfs /mnt I can run the setup, I can setup-chroot, but I can't passwd when I do passwd, it immediately tells me: Changing password for root Enter the new password (minimum of 5 characters) Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers. Bad password: too short. Warning: weak password (enter it again to use it anyway) passwd: password changed. but I don't even have a chance to type anything, it just does all of that at once. When I look in /etc/passwd I can see a line for root, but no password, unsurprisingly. could the problem be in tmpfs? I'm not sure what's really different here. Thank you.