From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 15:14:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA2037B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:14:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from web11603.mail.yahoo.com (web11603.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D116143FD7 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:14:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pongkee@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030311231456.24525.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.43.44.116] by web11603.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:14:56 PST Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:14:56 -0800 (PST) From: NOEL BALANSAG Subject: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message