What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

Jorn Argelo jorn at wcborstel.com
Mon Dec 3 10:50:59 PST 2007


RW wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100
> Jorn Argelo <jorn at wcborstel.com> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write
>> to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions.
>>     
>
> I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd
> need /usr mounted too.
>   
You'd need to mount /usr anyway, as the vi binary is located in /usr/bin ;-)

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