Rereate /etc/crypttab ?

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 08/01/2012 07:44 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Though a rawhide vm.
> More of a general question.
> 
> I can only boot to emergency shell in the vm itself
> or if netinstall.iso cd is used.
> and systmed is mounted under "chroot /mnt/sysimage"
> all commands fail due to "running  in chroot: ignoring request"
> 
> Looking at:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/apcs04s06.html
> 
> Finding it difficult without gpm (mouse console)
> to help with copy and paste.
> 
> Any one handed ideas?

As regards how to copy&paste in a console without gpm, you can try
shell tricks like:

the_command_which_prints_something_you_want | grep more_or_less_the_good_part >>/etc/crypttab

then you only have to delete the garbage from /etc/crypttab and rearrange
things (with a text editor).


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