On 2017-04-17 14:19, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 17/04/17 05:05 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447981 Closed worksforme 9 years ago. should I reopen it? Clone it? File from scratch? Simotek on IRC said file a bug, but I wonder if there is some other editor on installation media that I just don't know how to find.
I booted the 42.2 rescue system to try to see what's what. The only editors I could get to open were Edit, Joe and Vim. All have the same non-interface that's unfriendly to non-veteran users of the vi/ed interface paradigm.
Also, the rescue shell's help command suggests 'info bash' and 'man -k' to get more help. Both commands produce "command not found".
Before I file any bug, I wonder whether the rescue system is complete when launched from a Grub boot (here, normally used for HTTP installations instead of creating media from isos) that specifies only linux and initrd? Help works. Mount works. Gdisk and fdisk work. Same results tried with TW instead of 42.2.
I would not expect a RESCUE system to be a complete, fully functional system. It is a debug & repair environment.
I expect it to run tools like full YaST, gparted, mc. xfs and other specific filesystem tools. rsync. Man pages. Info pages. A PDF reader. A web browser, to seek help on Internet. Everything to repair a computer without having another computer. And yes, it did exist, on 13.1. It disappeared on Leap. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)