On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51:46PM +0530, manish jain wrote: > I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in > single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is > a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo > can't locate its database in single-user mode. > > Could anyone please tell me how to go about this on a 7.x system ? I > am also curious to know why FreeBSD doesn't place vi under /bin in the > first place.
Why not mount /usr? As I understand it, the usual criterion is that only things that are necessary to get the other partitions mounted go in the root partition; everything else goes under /usr. I don’t know if this is the case with FreeBSD, but I don’t know of any other. -- Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7
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