-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok as I have some answers now: > > The thing with vi is: to know how to work with it, does not mean you > have to like it.
If you don't like it, you haven't worked with it enough ;-) (or you may be using vim-minimal when you could have vim-enhanced). > urpmi/rpm may be very handy to get rid of such a grazy package as the > latest kernel, which killed the system of some poeple here, including > mine, my plan in this situation was to deinstall the package and > reinstall a working kernel-package (I could not try it until now, but > will this evening, maybe it helps). This should not be necessary. The old kernel is likely still there. All you have to do is adjust the /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.img symlinks, run lilo and then reboot into your previous working kernel. The reason /sbin/installkernel did this (not leaving a working entry for the original kernel) is however worth a bug report IMHO. > partimage: this came into my mind because I use Knoppix to image my > partitions, which is very comfortable, and I thougt it was a good idea > to have something similar in Mandrake, And it would be even better if you could choose to run partimage from the menu, and if partimage were in main, and there were tools available to setup partimage images. IMHO, partimage should go in. Greg, the reason for wanting to have partimage on the rescue CD is for restoring a system from it's image, which is a bit difficult to do without a partimage in the rescue image. Of course, for imaging in the first place it is not necessary. > especially if you want to > attract new users, who do not know, and maybe do not want to learn vi. Do newbies often need to edit files when booted in rescue mode? And IMHO, anyone should take the time to learn vi if they are going to be in this position, and this is one reason why: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm]$ which nano /usr/bin/nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm]$ which vim-minimal /bin/vim-minimal > By the way, a computer and its operating system are tools that should > support the user as much as they can, so why should you always take > the hard path, what is so wrong about a bit comfort ? Rescue tools aren't the same as the OS. When last did you boot a Windows machine into the recovery console? The point is that it is better to ensure that the user *doesn't* need to boot the rescue disk. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/AELurJK6UGDSBKcRAtW3AJ9SI+YSfUv5G0AwIJcpmn+Or/oUhACeK3zT tNmjUdTyhONvhVrn9ezfDaw= =/AG8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
