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Date:      11 Mar 2003 18:21:44 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        NOEL BALANSAG <pongkee@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load
Message-ID:  <447kb5a3qv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030311231456.24525.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030311231456.24525.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com>

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NOEL BALANSAG <pongkee@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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?

FAQ.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF-READONLY

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