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

2005-10-25 Thread Maude User
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

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Howse
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

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Howse
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

2005-10-25 Thread Micah
Maude User wrote: 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

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

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Howse
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

2005-10-25 Thread Maude User
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 --

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

2005-10-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello All -- Nuked a lot here. SUMMARY: After booting from the CD, I found a command in the install program to enter an emergency shell and accessed this shell by hitting ALT-F4 -- but if I do an rm command in this emergency shell, it doesn't apply to the filesystem on