Re: ED

Noth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/08/2026 06:03, Thea DeSilva wrote:

> one of these days my ed knowledge is going to stick. When I need to 
> recover a broken system I sometimes boot bsd.rd. It doesn't have vim 
> or anything like that but it does have ed. Last time I used this I had 
> to edit my fstab. I forget how to use ed so quickly. How do you 
> recover your systems?

Booting bsd.rd, you can, after creating the various sd* entries in /dev, 
mount ,after fsck, / and /usr and then chroot into /mnt. set TERM=vt100 
and you can use vi. If you want vim you need to mount /usr/local too.

This way you don't need to remember ed anymore...

Cheers,

Noth
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