At 18:47 Uhr +0100 25.03.1998, Jym & Sharon Brittain wrote:
>When I go to boot in
>single user mode to edit rc.conf, I get vi: vi not found. This happens
>with EVERY command when I use a seperate partition for /usr. Anyone else
>experience similar problems and have a solution? If I use a joint /root &
>usr partition it works fine.

ed(1) is your friend....

vi lives in /usr/bin; it needs shared libraries from /usr/lib and a
sufficiently intelligent terminal. Just yesterday, I was confronted with
the task to bring up a machine from a root partition (/sbin,/bin) over the
network. Quite instructive...

	hauke



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