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Subject: Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?
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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100
Jorn Argelo <jorn@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.