vi almost unusable in recovery console

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/30/2008 03:40 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm trying to edit an fstab with vi using the ubuntu alternate cd's
>> 'recover a broken system' option.

>> The problem is the console it drops you into has a term type of
>> 'bterm'

>> 1 - is there any way to get a better terminal?  or a different TERM I
>> can tell vi it is for better results?

>> 2 - what the heck package would I report a bug against?  or am I
>> wishing for the impossible?

>> Note that nano doesn't work right either - and emacs isn't available.

> Try editing using nano:
> sudo nano /etc/fstab

Nano doesn't work.  Vi with the combinations I tried of vt100, linux,
ansi and using vi -T dumb - none of them work right.
You make a couple of changes and parts of the screen don't change so
what you see isn't what's actually there.

It makes the rescue console useless in my opinion.
I'll have to try System Rescue CD or something else that grok's LVM for now.

I'm off to file a bug - wish I knew what the right package to complain
about was.
I'm kinda shocked nobody's noticed this before.  Maybe I'm missing
something obvious - or maybe everybody just uses the live cd for this
stuff normally.

Brian