Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

Hello All -- SUMMARY: I changed a configuration file and now I can no longer boot from my hard drive (but I can still boot from the CD). I would like to boot from the CD and undo my change to the configuration file -- but when I boot from the CD it automatically launches the install

Re: Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

Micah wrote: The option you are looking for is fixit from the install disk menu. This'll get you a command prompt. You will have to manually mount the partion that boot is on then you can delete, rename, edit, etc the file in question. === Micah -- Thank you for your answer --

Setting up a home network with FreeBSD (not connected to the Internet yet)

Hello All - I have a 1U rackmount server (running FreeBSD 5.4) and a laptop (dual-boot running WinXP-Pro and FreeBSD 5.3) and I'd like to connect the two in a home network (not connected to the Internet) so I can learn web development using Apache, PHP, Python, Plone, Ruby, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.

Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

Hello -- I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop and now I want to install it onto a rackmount server (hardware specs below). I hate to ask a silly question but here goes: Do I need to get a USB CD-ROM drive (and keyboard and monitor) for the server in order to install FreeBSD... or is

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

Thank you for your quick answer! In the link you sent, there is a chapter about doing a headless install -- and my rackmount server is certainly headless. My laptop is so new it doesn't appear to have a serial port, but I think I can get a USB-to-serial adapter for connecting the null modem

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

I didn't realize it would be slow using a null-cable modem - thanks for that info. I guess I should borrow a monitor and keyboard to do the install faster. Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/05, Maude User wrote: Thank you for your quick answer! In the link you sent

Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

Hello - I want to install FreeBSD 5.3 onto a rackmount server that came with two SATA hard drives (it came with no CD or floppy). I will borrow a keyboard and monitor because I was informed today on this list that a headless install from my laptop over a null-modem cable would slow. I was

Re: [nycbug-talk] Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

/manuals/m_gs12b5103_100.pdf Jim Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Maude User [2005-08-11 20:15]: Hello - I want to install FreeBSD 5.3 onto a rackmount server that came with two SATA hard drives (it came with no CD or floppy). I will borrow a keyboard and monitor because I was informed today

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

to boot from and will come in handy later for other things, and I can always have a boot CD as a backup. - Steve in Brooklyn Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/05, Maude User wrote: I didn't realize it would be slow using a null-cable modem - thanks for that info. I guess I

Re: Questions using PartitionMagic for dual-boot with WinXP-Pro

Jerry - Thank you for your email - that pretty much cleared everything up. I am quite definitely installing FreeBSD (5.3) - not Linux - sorry about the many misleading mentions of Linux. Those crept in because many of the tips I had googled seemed to mention Linux utilities (such as boot

Dual-boot WinXP: FreeBSD slice within 8GB? Space for EasyBoot?

Hello - I'm going to install FreeBSD to make a dual-boot laptop (keeping WinXP-Pro). It has 60GB on a single hard drive, currently one big NTFS partition (C:) - which I will shrink down to about 16GB with PartitionMagic, leaving a new generic FAT or FAT32 slice which FreeBSD will overwrite.

Questions using PartitionMagic for dual-boot with WinXP-Pro

Hi - I need help partitioning a laptop (using PartitionMagic) which already has WinXP-Pro on it, so it can dual-boot FreeBSD. SUMMARY === I'm thinking of doing the following layout (things I'm unsure about are in brackets [...]): - boot (Z:) - FAT [or FAT32?]- 2MB [less/more?] - primary