Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:39:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pax in /rescue Message-ID: <87ej3tnuiu.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <48C56E41.40002@criticalmagic.com> (Richard Coleman's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:26:09 -0400") References: <20080906.224018.-1303464793.imp@bsdimp.com> <1f27304c0809062222m724603dat2fb1af63dba5faa6@mail.gmail.com> <20080906.235633.-267228782.imp@bsdimp.com> <48C56E41.40002@criticalmagic.com>
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:26:09 -0400, Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com> wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: >> : BTW, could editors/e3 be include into /rescue? >> : I think it's ineed to have a text editor to edit some file for rescue. >> : Because vi(1) lives in /usr/bin. >> >> /rescue already has nvi. > > But this is only partially useful until the root partition/termcap issue > is finally fixed. > > It comes up on the list about every 6 months, and everyone says "yeah, > we should move the termcap file". And that's where it sits until the > topic comes up again in another 6 months :-) I'm working on it. The ideas from the last discussion about allowing a minimal termcap in the root filesystem, and modifying ncurses to look for that as a fallback are nice... See the thread in freebsd-current that includes the posts: !A 2008-08-05 [ 28: Alex Kozlov ] Re: termcap under single luser ! 2008-08-06 [ 32: Alex Kozlov ] Re: termcap under single luser
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