From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 15:21:53 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 5ABF437B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:21:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C1B43FF2 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:21:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <200303112321460510091t4re>; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:21:46 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2BNLjHI006163; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:21:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h2BNLj3T006160; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:21:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: NOEL BALANSAG Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load References: <20030311231456.24525.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Mar 2003 18:21:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030311231456.24525.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <447kb5a3qv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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 NOEL BALANSAG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message