Editing on the serial console

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:24, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> Editing files in single-user mode on the serial console 
> is non-trivial. Both vi and ee have problems displaying 
> the file, ed doesn't really try so it works but isn't
> much fun. Is there a better option?  When the machine 
> boots single-user it reports "can't read /etc/termcap", 
> is something misconfigured?

/etc/termcap is a symlink to /usr/share/misc/termcap - if you mount /usr (read only is fine) then it should work.

ie since you are in single user mode only / has been mounted.

If / and /usr are the same FS them something else is wrong :)

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Daniel O'Connor
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