Re: [Testbed-admins] Problem with TERMCAP in MFS image

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com> wrote:

We did make customizations to the MFS images on boss directly (mounted
on bossthen edited...)

but to customize the full images the instructions say to imageunzip
onto a test node with the admin MFS then edit files on the testnode.
That is where I'm having problems. are there any editors loaded in
the MFS image? I assume if vi isn't there not much else is.

-Ben

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Leigh Stoller<stoller@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
>> I can't use vi in the MFS image to edit files to customizre the
>> various images
>>
>> when I try to edit a file (with vi) I get:
>>
>> "vi: no terminal database found"
>
> Yep, we try to keep the MFS images as small as possible since they are
> transferred via tftp, a very simplistic protocol.
>
> Typically you would modify the MFS images directly on boss by
> following the instructions in the README file in each of the subdirs
> of the mfs tarball.
>
> I see that the wiki makes no mention of this though. Sorry about
> that. I'll try to get something into the wiki.
>
> Lbs
>
>
>
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