Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Oct 6 13:53:54 UTC 2013
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote:
> Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line.
>
> Very limited commands: "ls: not found".
>
> Why? What good are these disks if they don't have
> the most basic of commands?
The "emergency holographic shell" was always very limited. I suspect a
path thing, with it looking for commands on the installed system. Old
bare-bones tricks like "echo *" help.
> Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number
> of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data.
>
> Want to use "recoverdisk", but can't get the
> command line to work.
Use mfsBSD: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/
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