ironic...I dorked something up last night in my lab and found myself in the same predicament...my mentor had me invoke the mount -a command which brought me out of read only mode so I could run vi to fix my rc.conf...hope this helps...
--- Tom Parquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NOEL BALANSAG wrote: > > >hello. > > > >pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the > >command "ee" or "vi"? i recently removed partition no. > >2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so > >now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and = > >fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into fbsd, the > >system cannot see the files, and drops me into the "#" > >prompt. > > > >how do i invoke "ee" or "vi"? is it ok to just edit > >the file "/etc/fstab" and reboot? is there anything > >else i need to do? > > > >thanks in advance. > > > >pls. cc any response because this email address of > >mine is not subscribed, bec. any mail from my other > >subscribe addy gets bounced due to a spammer on my > >isp. i hate spammers!!! they should be shot! > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online > >http://webhosting.yahoo.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > Noel, > From your description I'm assuming you are going into single user mode. > > It sounds like fstab is pointing in the wrong place. > If you can figure out where your /usr filesystem is you can issue a > mount command to remount it. > Once you have /usr mounted, "ee" should work for you. > Hope this helps. > Cheers... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ===== Will Williams To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
