Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-26 Thread Andres Perera
no. the equivalent to the top/systat behaviour would be to make vi spawn less and ed when 'v' is pressed, not prompt you "are you sure?" less does not work with a dumb terminal as you said. the output eventually gets garbled. if you really want that functionality, look at /.profile. every 120 mo

Re[4]: problem in fstab

2012-07-26 Thread Mo Libden
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:06:02 -0430 от Andres Perera : > the problem with this logic is that there are numerous curses > programs: less, top, systat, vi; just to name the ones i recall from > base. since you top-posted, I will too. what's the problem with top? will it bomb out if there is no TERM? i t

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-26 Thread Andres Perera
the problem with this logic is that there are numerous curses programs: less, top, systat, vi; just to name the ones i recall from base. surely retrofitting them with prompts isn't an option, specially when having TERM unset isn't the norm On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Mo Libden wrote: > Tue,

Re[2]: problem in fstab

2012-07-26 Thread Mo Libden
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:46:55 + от Alexander Polakov : > * HvN [120724 17:17]: > > I booted into single user mode, mounted / and /usr according to FAQ 8. > > However, when I try to use vi to change fstab, it says "unknown terminal > > type". Any suggestions ? > > export TERM=vt220 may be vi ca

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bennett
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:30:48PM -0400, Michael Lambert wrote: > On 24 Jul 2012, at 13:16, HvN wrote: > > > I booted into single user mode, mounted / and /usr according to FAQ 8. > > However, when I try to use vi to change fstab, it says "unknown terminal > > type". Any suggestions ? > > Use

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread Alexander Polakov
* HvN [120724 17:17]: > I booted into single user mode, mounted / and /usr according to FAQ 8. > However, when I try to use vi to change fstab, it says "unknown terminal > type". Any suggestions ? > export TERM=vt220 -- Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread Huub van Niekerk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 05:16:27PM +, HvN wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:59:14 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:44:36PM +, HvN wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Today I installed v.5.1 and all

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Lambert
On 24 Jul 2012, at 13:16, HvN wrote: > I booted into single user mode, mounted / and /usr according to FAQ 8. > However, when I try to use vi to change fstab, it says "unknown terminal > type". Any suggestions ? Use ed(1) to edit?

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 05:16:27PM +, HvN wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:59:14 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:44:36PM +, HvN wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Today I installed v.5.1 and all went nicely. I put my nfs server in > >> fstab, > >> modified hosts a

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting HvN : On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:59:14 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:44:36PM +, HvN wrote: Hi, Today I installed v.5.1 and all went nicely. I put my nfs server in fstab, modified hosts and added a mountpoint in /mnt. All worked. Then I rebooted and the boot

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread HvN
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:59:14 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:44:36PM +, HvN wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Today I installed v.5.1 and all went nicely. I put my nfs server in >> fstab, >> modified hosts and added a mountpoint in /mnt. All worked. Then I >> rebooted and the bo

Re: problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:44:36PM +, HvN wrote: > Hi, > > Today I installed v.5.1 and all went nicely. I put my nfs server in fstab, > modified hosts and added a mountpoint in /mnt. All worked. Then I > rebooted and the boot halts with: > > fsck: exec /usr/sbin/fsck_nfs for Kaapstad:/admi

problem in fstab

2012-07-24 Thread HvN
Hi, Today I installed v.5.1 and all went nicely. I put my nfs server in fstab, modified hosts and added a mountpoint in /mnt. All worked. Then I rebooted and the boot halts with: fsck: exec /usr/sbin/fsck_nfs for Kaapstad:/admin: No such file or directory THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEX