diff --git a/boot/builder.sh b/boot/builder.sh
index a350d06e020a..bef4682093d7 100755
--- a/boot/builder.sh
+++ b/boot/builder.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ for i in $boot $halt $login $env; do
         -e "s^@gnugrep\@^$gnugrep^g" \
         -e "s^@gzip\@^$gzip^g" \
         -e "s^@gcc\@^$gcc^g" \
-        -e "s^@mingetty\@^$mingetty^g" \
+        -e "s^@mingettyWrapper\@^$mingettyWrapper^g" \
         -e "s^@module_init_tools\@^$module_init_tools^g" \
         -e "s^@grub\@^$grubWrapper^g" \
         -e "s^@udev\@^$udev^g" \
diff --git a/boot/default.nix b/boot/default.nix
index dc3632f8f701..17957c934a72 100644
--- a/boot/default.nix
+++ b/boot/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, kernel, bash, coreutils, findutilsWrapper, utillinux, sysvinit, e2fsprogs
 , nettools, nix, subversion, gcc, wget, which, vim, less, screen, openssh
 , binutils, strace, shadowutils, iputils, gnumake, curl, gnused, gnugrep
-, gnutar, gzip, mingetty, grubWrapper, parted, module_init_tools, hotplug
+, gnutar, gzip, mingettyWrapper, grubWrapper, parted, module_init_tools, hotplug
 , udev, dhcpWrapper, man, nano}:
 
 derivation {
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ derivation {
   inherit stdenv kernel bash coreutils findutilsWrapper utillinux sysvinit
           e2fsprogs nettools nix subversion gcc wget which vim less screen
           openssh binutils strace shadowutils iputils gnumake curl gnused
-          gnutar gnugrep gzip mingetty grubWrapper parted module_init_tools
+          gnutar gnugrep gzip mingettyWrapper grubWrapper parted module_init_tools
           udev dhcpWrapper man nano;
 }
diff --git a/boot/env.sh b/boot/env.sh
index 1f151ae93b3b..ee481270ee99 100644
--- a/boot/env.sh
+++ b/boot/env.sh
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export PATH=@nix@/bin:@bash@/bin:@coreutils@/bin:@findutilsWrapper@/bin:@utillinux@/bin:@utillinux@/sbin:@sysvinit@/bin:@sysvinit@/sbin:@e2fsprogs@/bin:@e2fsprogs@/sbin:@nettools@/bin:@nettools@/sbin:@gcc@/bin:@subversion@/bin:@which@/bin:@wget@/bin:@vim@/bin:@less@/bin:@screen@/bin:@openssh@/bin:@binutils@/bin:@strace@/bin:@shadowutils@/bin:@shadowutils@/sbin:@iputils@/bin:@gnumake@/bin:@curl@/bin:@gnused@/bin:@gnutar@/bin:@gnugrep@/bin:@gzip@/bin:@mingetty@/sbin:@grub@/bin:@grub@/sbin:@module_init_tools@/sbin:@dhcpWrapper@/sbin:@man@/bin:@nano@/bin
+export PATH=@nix@/bin:@bash@/bin:@coreutils@/bin:@findutilsWrapper@/bin:@utillinux@/bin:@utillinux@/sbin:@sysvinit@/bin:@sysvinit@/sbin:@e2fsprogs@/bin:@e2fsprogs@/sbin:@nettools@/bin:@nettools@/sbin:@gcc@/bin:@subversion@/bin:@which@/bin:@wget@/bin:@vim@/bin:@less@/bin:@screen@/bin:@openssh@/bin:@binutils@/bin:@strace@/bin:@shadowutils@/bin:@shadowutils@/sbin:@iputils@/bin:@gnumake@/bin:@curl@/bin:@gnused@/bin:@gnutar@/bin:@gnugrep@/bin:@gzip@/bin:@mingettyWrapper@/sbin:@grub@/bin:@grub@/sbin:@module_init_tools@/sbin:@dhcpWrapper@/sbin:@man@/bin:@nano@/bin
diff --git a/fill-disk.sh b/fill-disk.sh
index bb699d6de682..df64f7302199 100755
--- a/fill-disk.sh
+++ b/fill-disk.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 export PATH=@bash@/bin:@coreutils@/bin:@findutils@/bin:@utillinux@/bin:@utillinux@/sbin:@e2fsprogs@/sbin:@grub@/sbin:@sysvinitPath@/sbin:@gnugrep@/bin:@which@/bin:@gnutar@/bin
 
+##
+## In the beginning we want to have a minimalistic environment, built with
+## klibc.
+##
+
 kernel=@kernel@
 
 storePaths=/mystorepaths
@@ -10,6 +15,7 @@ sysvinitPath=@sysvinitPath@
 bootPath=@bootPath@
 modutils=@modutils@
 hotplug=@hotplug@
+mingetty=@mingetty@
 
 echo mounting special filesystems
 
@@ -176,22 +182,13 @@ mknod -m 0600 $root/dev/tty0 c 4 0
 mknod -m 0600 $root/dev/tty1 c 4 1
 mknod -m 0444 $root/dev/urandom c 1 9
 
-#touch_file /etc/passwd
-#touch_file /etc/shadow
-#touch_file /etc/group
-
 rm -f $root/etc/mtab
 #ln -s /proc/mounts $root/etc/mtab
 
-#cat /proc/mounts
-
 ## Probe for CD device which contains our CD here and mount /nix and
 ## /nixpkgs from it inside the ramdisk. Anaconda uses kudzu for this.
 ## Find out how Knoppix and SUSE do this...
 
-#devices=$(grep -r cdrom hd* | cut -d '/' -f 1 | sort | uniq)
-#echo devices ${devices}
-
 DEVICES="/dev/hd?"
 
 for i in ${DEVICES}
@@ -204,13 +201,14 @@ then
     cddevice=$i
     echo "Accessing NixOS CDROM at $i"
   break
-fi
-#umount /cdrom
+  fi
 fi
 done
 
 echo switch to /nix and /nixpkgs from CD
 
+## starting here it's OK to have full blown glibc
+
 ln -s /cdrom/nixpkgs /nixpkgs
 mount --bind /cdrom/nix /nix
 
@@ -222,7 +220,6 @@ export NIX_CONF_DIR=$root/nix/etc
 NIX_CMD_PATH=@NIX_CMD_PATH@/bin
 
 echo initialising Nix DB...
-#/nix/bin/nix-store --init
 $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store --init
 
 echo verifying Nix DB...
@@ -258,10 +255,6 @@ cp /cdrom/mystorepaths $root/tmp
 
 echo copying store
 
-#(while read storepaths; do
-  #cp -fa $storepaths $root/nix/store
-#done) < /cdrom/mystorepaths
-
 #cp -fva /nix/store/* $root/nix/store
 tar cf - /nix/store | tar --directory=$root -xvf -
 
@@ -269,23 +262,10 @@ echo registering valid paths...
 
 $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store --register-validity < $root/tmp/mystorepaths
 
-#(while read storepath; do
-#    echo PATH $storepath
-#    if ! $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store --isvalid $storepath 2> /dev/null; then
-#        (unset NIX_ROOT; $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store --dump $storepath) | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store --restore $storepath
-#        $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store --validpath $storepath
-#    fi
-#done) < /tmp/mystorepaths
-
-#echo registering successors...
-#(while read line; do
-#    echo SUCC $line
-#    $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store --successor $line
-#done) < /tmp/mysuccessors
-
 echo setting init symlink...
 rm -f $root/init
-ln -s $sysvinitPath/sbin/init $root/init
+#ln -s $sysvinitPath/sbin/init $root/init
+ln -s @sysvinitPath@/sbin/init $root/sbin/init
 ln -s @bash@/bin/sh $root/bin/sh
 ln -s @bash@/bin/bash $root/bin/bash
 
@@ -295,6 +275,7 @@ echo "id:2:initdefault:" >> $root/etc/inittab
 echo "si::bootwait:$bootPath/bin/boot.sh" >> $root/etc/inittab
 echo "ht:06:wait:$bootPath/bin/halt.sh" >> $root/etc/inittab
 echo "1:2345:respawn:$bootPath/bin/login.sh /dev/tty1" >> $root/etc/inittab
+echo "2:2345:respawn:$mingetty/sbin/mingetty tty2" >> $root/etc/inittab
 #echo "2:2345:respawn:$bootPath/bin/login.sh /dev/ttys/1" >> $root/etc/inittab
 
 echo setting up networking information...
@@ -338,7 +319,6 @@ chmod 644 $root/lib/modules/$version/modules.*
 ### Do funky stuff with grub here.
 ###
 
-ln -s @sysvinitPath@/sbin/init $root/sbin/init
 ln -s @hotplug@/sbin/hotplug $root/sbin/hotplug
 ln -s @hotplug@/etc/hotplug $root/etc/hotplug
 ln -s @hotplug@/etc/hotplug.d $root/etc/hotplug.d
diff --git a/make-disk.sh b/make-disk.sh
index 6c42916df1b2..3d33571ec991 100755
--- a/make-disk.sh
+++ b/make-disk.sh
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ done
 
 utilLinux=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -qR $(nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).utillinux' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -)))
 coreUtils=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -qR $(nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).coreutils' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -)))
-e2fsProgs=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -qR $(nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).e2fsprogs' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -)))
+e2fsProgs=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -qR $(nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).e2fsprogsDiet' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -)))
 modUtils=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -qR $(nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).module_init_tools' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -)))
 Grub=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -qR $(nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).grubWrapper' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -)))
 #gnuSed=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -qR $(nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).gnused' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -)))
@@ -91,9 +91,10 @@ bash=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -q $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).bash' | $NIX_CMD_P
 coreutils=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -q $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).coreutils' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
 findutils=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -q $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).findutilsWrapper' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
 utillinux=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -q $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).utillinux' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
-e2fsprogs=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -q $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).e2fsprogs' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
+e2fsprogs=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -q $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).e2fsprogsDiet' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
 modutils=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -q $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).module_init_tools' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
 grub=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).grubWrapper' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
+mingettyWrapper=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).mingettyWrapper' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
 hotplug=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).hotplug' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
 udev=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).udev' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
 dhcp=$($NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-store -r $(echo '(import ./pkgs.nix).dhcpWrapper' | $NIX_CMD_PATH/nix-instantiate -))
@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ sed -e "s^@sysvinitPath\@^$sysvinitPath^g" \
     -e "s^@gnugrep\@^$gnugrep^g" \
     -e "s^@which\@^$which^g" \
     -e "s^@gnutar\@^$gnutar^g" \
+    -e "s^@mingetty\@^$mingettyWrapper^g" \
     < $fill_disk > $fill_disk.tmp
 mv $fill_disk.tmp $fill_disk
 
diff --git a/pkgs.nix b/pkgs.nix
index af8d61a3f364..d02d0a7a134c 100644
--- a/pkgs.nix
+++ b/pkgs.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 rec {
   inherit (import /nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/system/i686-linux.nix)
-    stdenv kernel bash coreutils findutilsWrapper utillinux sysvinit e2fsprogs
+    stdenv kernel bash coreutils findutilsWrapper utillinux sysvinit
+   e2fsprogsDiet e2fsprogs
     nettools nix subversion gcc wget which vim less screen openssh binutils
     strace shadowutils iputils gnumake curl gnused gnutar gnugrep gzip
-    mingetty grubWrapper syslinux parted module_init_tools hotplug udev
+    mingettyWrapper grubWrapper syslinux parted module_init_tools hotplug udev
     dhcpWrapper man nano;
 
   boot = (import ./boot) {inherit stdenv kernel bash coreutils findutilsWrapper
     utillinux sysvinit e2fsprogs nettools nix subversion gcc wget which vim
     less screen openssh binutils strace shadowutils iputils gnumake curl
-    gnused gnutar gnugrep gzip mingetty grubWrapper parted module_init_tools
+    gnused gnutar gnugrep gzip mingettyWrapper grubWrapper parted module_init_tools
     hotplug udev dhcpWrapper man nano;};
 
-  init = (import ./init) {inherit stdenv bash coreutils utillinux e2fsprogs
-    nix shadowutils mingetty grubWrapper parted module_init_tools hotplug
+  init = (import ./init) {inherit stdenv bash coreutils utillinux e2fsprogsDiet
+    nix shadowutils mingettyWrapper grubWrapper parted module_init_tools hotplug
     dhcpWrapper man nano;};
 
   everything = [boot sysvinit kernel];