Emergency Editors (was Stabble Tag move)

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:06:26PM +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> Hi Joerg Sonnenberger,
> you wrote.
> JS> Why do we need such an editor? Heck, we are talking about a situation
> JS> where you can't mount /usr. In which situation would an editor be
> JS> needed for that? I can't imagine any.
> 
> How about editing fstab not to include /usr so you can continue to
> boot (a lot of stuff is easier to fix when the network's up) ?
> Yeah I know, we could do that with head and tail ;-).
> 
> But yes, there's a point.

Well, how do you want to continue to boot without /usr ?!
You can directly configure your network or call the rc scripts
if you really want to.

Joerg