Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all the tips on this subject. One more question: How would I enable a

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all the tips on this subject. One more question: How would I enable a local keyboard layout in single user mode? I have had to find '/' by

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:53:02 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:53:02 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount /

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread José García Juanino
El lunes 03 de diciembre a las 19:14:12 CET, RW escribió: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode? [now: keyboards]

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:42:45PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all the

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd need /usr mounted too.

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread Jorn Argelo
RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd need /usr

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread Jorn Argelo
---BeginMessage--- Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-02 Thread Jorn Argelo
John Murphy wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-02 Thread John Murphy
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Murphy wrote: [after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu] Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: /bin/tcsh sh: Cannot open /etc/termcap sh: using dumb

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in single user

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:46:12 + Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 14:06:19 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selecting /bin/[t]csh always works for me. I just tried it again with exactly the same results (FreeBSD-7.0 beta3): [after pressing 4 at the Beasty

What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-11-30 Thread John Murphy
I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in single user mode. It grumbled about termcap (I think) and then gave me a

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-11-30 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in