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Default DROID - Busybox Works, Then Doesn't

So I was trying to install Busybox on my DROID to use Metamorph and some other root applications. Stericson said I should be able to download via DroidSwap, but that didn't work so I went for the manual installation.

Following these instructions (http://www.novoda.com/blog/?p=3) I was able to successfully install Busybox on my phone. I typed busybox in the terminal and got a list of commands, I typed cp in the terminal and got the Copy syntax.

So I exited the terminal and went to perform something else and going back into the terminal I typed busybox again, except this time I get "busybox: busybox not found" ... I even navigated back to /data/busybox and if I do an ls of that directory the busybox file is in there, but I still get the "not found" when trying to run it.

Any thoughts as to why it would work once and now it doesn't.
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Your best bet is probably to install it to /system/bin so it's in your path. Then you don't have to navigate anywhere to run busybox.

Just put the busybox binary into /system/bin and chmod to 755.
 
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