Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:45:58 -0500, W. D. wrote: > Thanks, Polytropon. I couldn't get FrieSBIE to work. It's a rather old project, and as far as I know, it isn't being continued anymore. It should still support at least the CLI mode for most computers... (I have to admit that I'm still using it,

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: "ls: not found". Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? The "emergenc

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: >On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: > >> Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. >> >> Very limited commands: "ls: not found". >> >> Why? What good are these disks if they don't have >> the most basic of commands? > >The "emergency holographic shell"

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 01:58 10/6/2013, Polytropon wrote: >On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:29:19 -0500, W. D. wrote: >> Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. >> >> Very limited commands: "ls: not found". > >Try /rescue/ls explicitely instead. > > > >> Why? What good are these disks if they don't have >> the most

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: "ls: not found". Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? The "emergency holographic shell" was always very limited. I suspect a path thing, with

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-05 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:29:19 -0500, W. D. wrote: > Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. > > Very limited commands: "ls: not found". Try /rescue/ls explicitely instead. > Why? What good are these disks if they don't have > the most basic of commands? Only live systems offer more

Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-05 Thread W. D.
Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: "ls: not found". Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data. Want to use "recoverdisk", but