editors in rescue mode (thanks)

[NoOp]

On 08/04/2008 12:20 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, NoOp wrote:
> 
>>>
>>
>> It wouldn't have worked properly anyway; see Brian's earlier thread on
>> this: "vi almost unusable in recovery console"
> 
> I had skipped over that thread before but went back and picked it up.
> 
>>
>> If you have a working network connection on the machine:
>>
>> # apt-get install bogl-bterm
> 
> To ask a stupid question: in recovery mode?
> 
> Thanks to all that replied.
> 

To add to my previous: I just brought up the Alternate CD and arrowed
down to "Rescue a broken system". I then selected F6 and selected
"Expert Mode" and allowed it to boot. That brings up a menu:
o choose language
o configure keyboard
o detect and mount cd-rom
o load installer components from cd
o change debconf priority
o check the cd-rom(s) integrity
o save debug logs
o execute a shell
o abort the installation

[I've never tried the "Expert Mode" before]

I selected "Execute a shell" and the menu then brings up:
<quote>
After this message, you will be running "ash", a Bourne-shell clone.

The root file is a RAM disk. The hard disk file systems are mounted on
"/target". The editor available to you is nano. It's very small and easy
to figure out. To get an idea of what Unix utilities are available to
you, use the "help" command.
</quote>

>From there I cd'd to /usr/share/terminfo/b/ and sure enough, bterm is
there _and_ nano is working normally. I've no idea why it doesn't work
in non-expert mode (yet).