On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:31:04AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> On 13:36:22 Nov 01, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> > As long as your filesystems are still readable, you can use a more
> > comfortable tool:
> >
> > mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
> > mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/var
> > mount /dev/wd0e /mnt/usr
> > /m
On 10:01:54 Nov 02, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> vi is certainly there. You have to mount /usr.
>
Which means it is not part of RAMDISK kernel. Sorry Edd is right and I
was wrong.
I end up using vi from somewhere I don't remember whenever I boot in
single user mode.
I guess it needs /tmp and
On 02:39:06 Nov 02, Edd Barrett wrote:
>
> As much as i love vi/vim/nvi, these are not available in ramdisk kernels.
>
vi is certainly there. You have to mount /usr.
-Girish
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use vim all the time. He he.
As much as i love vi/vim/nvi, these are not available in ramdisk kernels.
--
Best Regards
Edd
http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
On 13:36:22 Nov 01, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> As long as your filesystems are still readable, you can use a more
> comfortable tool:
>
> mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
> mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/var
> mount /dev/wd0e /mnt/usr
> /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt
> vi (or mg) /etc/fstab
>
> you could possibly even just copy
On 11/1/08, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM, soko.tica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> #chmod 766 /tmp/a/etc/fstab
>> # ed /tmp/a/etc/fstab
>> 215
>> q
>> #
>
>
> That is ed doing its job :)
>
Many thanks!
I did figure it out myself meanwhile, but since I alr
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:33:44PM +0100, soko.tica wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I did manage to scr... err, mess up partitioning scheme through
> disklabel, so I've booted from floppy, mounted partitions to /tmp/a/,
> tmp/d/, /tmp/e/, but when I attempt to edit etc/fstab by ed I get:
>
> #chmod 766
As long as your filesystems are still readable, you can use a more
comfortable tool:
mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/var
mount /dev/wd0e /mnt/usr
/mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt
vi (or mg) /etc/fstab
you could possibly even just copy your fstab from your freshly mounted
/var (/var/backups/etc
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM, soko.tica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I did manage to scr... err, mess up partitioning scheme through
> disklabel, so I've booted from floppy, mounted partitions to /tmp/a/,
> tmp/d/, /tmp/e/, but when I attempt to edit etc/fstab by ed I get:
>
> #ch
Hello list,
I did manage to scr... err, mess up partitioning scheme through
disklabel, so I've booted from floppy, mounted partitions to /tmp/a/,
tmp/d/, /tmp/e/, but when I attempt to edit etc/fstab by ed I get:
#chmod 766 /etc/fstab
# ed /etc/fstab
215
q
#
I've arrived there by adding new part
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