Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:27:16 +0100 From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma-lists@subvert.org.uk> To: manish jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to move vi to /bin Message-ID: <20090513082716.GB1363@joni.subvert.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <cb0fa7b70905130021t390bb560r4a1dd64ab3b2e79@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb0fa7b70905130021t390bb560r4a1dd64ab3b2e79@mail.gmail.com>
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--nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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=E2=80=99t know if this is the case with FreeBSD, but I don=E2=80=99t = know of any other. --=20 Benjamin M. A=E2=80=99Lee || mail: bma@subvert.org.uk web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7 --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJKCoRjAAoJEKuuEToWaJHHeKQQAMKA8Z8O+LrldopCRA9t9HAq A86r/brmoJClzm9XIefQYPxGpoDxPYiRHoMaEg4sLybu3zHBgB+6Bvz2mmY4JHSZ xnah7na+Iuhx91/YLHTxmc7pjP0wAaw+PiqCd8L1/ysWe8L0r7W+Tj6NBTCPYFGG Ev6+CflfXDj526oLUc4hrNvmc2XtKlEyoXsYnAjUMUztratLTUe/hi0zjjx+J6pc cJNL5wo6tMmgvcK4QCTi3DQUm0pYbV1JfzfUUY4iKhEkHxDodjwmFIimxA9v5f7Z 55S4xQ282sGr03hhA0Ews+vGC8ZY3bGCLCxTqMMFdtGEVW4r7Wg3OrVP8MhSaPv6 A01iTE1GELedhz/Hkv3nriM/c1q1kiO2+HuNBADoT++ufY+17P5b2ZsdxFmBIDyD A+dTSpEVtT4NMQLFg+auzGungDyoWD4u4rEpXHUnYCQXYGTkAbiepo1Qv/xM1vIi nD+MhdUaL9GwyGmTtelR/7Ex25NY7DOHVl7cN/+NdBBtFgPJoP89r5QrWAMbMfZU HujWpRKIkiMbQTidIjkHH7lf2TU/TVyt4h3grlWKWimMEV06VWKvCFw1y8Cg2rWP 5aQIcxuxKaXo/3HRMK5JdJk5iNbq+xjhekjzEjDmlyFViR27KiV98ez8R1qWm/FK AOzHq4PiHd1ywTSiMjIi =0d4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS--
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