In my experience with the rescue mode on the CD, some degree of sanity is restored by doing "chroot /mnt" from the rescue prompt. Things mostly work like normal then... well, less complicated anyway.
~Chuck On Sunday 21 October 2001 20:42, David wrote: > Was playing with Bastille firewall config and screwed the system > up and X wouldn't start. Luckily I saved a backup copy in the > same folder. That is when I noticed some of the limitation. > > Just wondering if this is normal. > > 1) If use the 'less' command piped with a command you have to > hit: Shift zz in order to exit. Had to write that one down. > > 2) If you want to rename something you have to give the exact > directory where 'rename' is. I had to /mnt/usr/bin/rename to use > the command. > > 3) vim doesn't work. Only vi works. And you have to /mnt/bin/vi > to get that to work. > > I can never get that rename command to work anyway, need to look > up the syntax better right after this. So I deleted the firewall > script and rebooted and then changed the name back. > > So does every command have to have the exact directory it is in > to work. IF so, then that is a wish list of possible please to > change that. > > Need to use the 'less' command a lot to see everything. If having > to use Shift zz to it to exit, then could we please make it work > with 'Ctrl z' and 'Ctrl c' also. > > Hard remembering all the commands, then if have to use the rescue > cd having to use different keys and command names (ie > /mnt/bin/vi) > > Please, pretty please.
