On Mon, May 24, 2004, Adam Felix Bogacki wrote: > I tried typing "Linux init=/bin/sh" at the LILO prompt and it booted > without all the bells & whistles, but when I tried 'vi' or 'apt-get' I > was told they were unknown commands. I had thought I might try > changing '/etc/apt/sources.list' to testing and deleting and > reinstalling samba, or just doing another 'dist-upgrade'. > > I could do a 'find' and 'rm' the samba files but that might be a bit > unpredictable. But if 'vi' was not available, what do I use to edit > and save files ?
At a guess, your drives aren't mounted. In particular, /usr (which would contain /usr/bin/vi) isn't mounted. Check /etc/fstab (which should be available) for your /usr partition, and then mount it. You will probably simply be able to type "mount /usr". You will probably also want to remount your root partition with write permissions enabled "mount / -o remount,rw" and probably the other partitions in /etc/fstab, certainly /var if it's on its own partition, otherwise apt-get probably won't work because it won't be able to create its lock files. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
