vi on HP 2335 in single user mode

[Dean M. Durant]

Hello, we have C8000 workstations running hpux 11.11 with 24" flat panel hp 2335 displays. When we boot into single user mode, we cannot use vi because hpux doesn't know what kind of TERM is in use. I tried set TERM=vt100; export TERM but that did not work. I know I need to check my syntax. But does anyone know of an official solution? Thanks, Dean

[Piergiacomo Perini · Accepted solution]

Hi Dean,

try with
TERM=hp; export TERM

regards

[Sivakumar TS]

Dear Dean,

Any of the following should work,

#export TERM=vt100

or

#export TERM=hp

With Regards,

Siva.

[Thummalu]

use export TERM=vt100 instead set...

br
Thummalu

[Dean M. Durant]

Well, everyone is saying the same thing. I will not be able to try it for a while but everyone seems pretty confident. Thanks!

[Steve Post]

something different for you. You said in your title "vi in single user mode".

Vi will bomb out while in single user mode if it's default temp area is not available. Mount the /tmp filesystem before using it.

And if you are stuck without vi? If you need to make a simple change, you could try ex. It's much more primitive. But it might work. For me? I've had to make a file mod without vi or ex in single user mode. I used: cat, sed and mv. It was enough to get the job done.

[Ted Buis]

Do a mount on /var and make sure /var/tmp is there. My guess is that the ITE (internal terminal emulator) for the graphics card would be doing hp, so I would do TERM=hp ; export TERM, but make sure that you first mount /var.

[Ted Buis]

If you can't mount /var, then go under the mount point and just make the tmp directory there. "mkdir /var/tmp" should do it. I had the situation recently where /var was lost and I had to do this to get vi going.

[Dean M. Durant]

Some of this is a little surprising. I really appreciate the feedback, but on the j6700s and j6750s, we don't have any of these problems with with /var/tmp or anything like that. In fact, if we put an older monitor on the C8000, I'm sure it would work. It seems more like the monitor is too new for the version of HPUX (11.11).

I would anticipate everything working perfectly with the new monitor with a recent version of X86 based linux, for example.