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by **John Winte** » Sun, 23 Nov 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>I had to resort to booting up my Linux partition from an
>install disk and then mounting the partition with
>mount /dev/hda2 /mnt. I then changed directories to
>/mnt/home/bin, which contained a copy of vi. I tried
>executing it, but could get Linux to recognize that
>it was vi in the current directory that I wanted. I
>tried ./vi and still no luck.

What sort of error message did you get when you typed ./vi?
You didn't have the disc mounted noexec did you?

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by **wayne t. wats** » Sun, 23 Nov 1997 04:00:00

I had to resort to booting up my Linux partition from an
install disk and then mounting the partition with
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt. I then changed directories to
/mnt/home/bin, which contained a copy of vi. I tried
executing it, but could get Linux to recognize that
it was vi in the current directory that I wanted. I
tried ./vi and still no luck. What's going on?
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by **Bjarne Nygaar** » Wed, 26 Nov 1997 04:00:00

Hi...

> I had to resort to booting up my Linux partition from an
> install disk and then mounting the partition with
> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt. I then changed directories to
> /mnt/home/bin, which contained a copy of vi. I tried
> executing it, but could get Linux to recognize that
> it was vi in the current directory that I wanted. I
> tried ./vi and still no luck. What's going on?

I guess you forgot to have a 'statically linked vi' :(
If your libs are not mounted and in your path you have problems.

> "A black hole is what you get when God divides by zero" - Stephen Wright

> (Note: Humpty Dumpty was pushed.)
> (Or was he just covering up because he was really a rotten egg?)

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by **tom** » Wed, 26 Nov 1997 04:00:00

> I had to resort to booting up my Linux partition from an
> install disk and then mounting the partition with
> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt. I then changed directories to
> /mnt/home/bin, which contained a copy of vi. I tried
> executing it, but could get Linux to recognize that
> it was vi in the current directory that I wanted. I
> tried ./vi and still no luck. What's going on?

Path maybe?

by **Trent Piep** » Thu, 27 Nov 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>I had to resort to booting up my Linux partition from an
>install disk and then mounting the partition with
>mount /dev/hda2 /mnt. I then changed directories to
>/mnt/home/bin, which contained a copy of vi. I tried
>executing it, but could get Linux to recognize that
>it was vi in the current directory that I wanted. I
>tried ./vi and still no luck. What's going on?

I bet the problem is that your install disk has a.out libraries, but the vi
from your hard disk is an ELF binary. You need to get a staticlly linked vi
or an a.out vi. You might try the vi on the slackware rescue disk, it will
run with the library from the slackware root disk.

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