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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:07:05 -0800 (PST)
From: "W. J. Williams" <will@willardjwilliams.com>
Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load
To: Tom Parquette <bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com>,
	NOEL BALANSAG <pongkee@yahoo.com>
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ironic...I dorked something up last night in my lab and found myself in
the same predicament...my mentor had me invoke the mount -a command which
brought me out of read only mode so I could run vi to fix my
rc.conf...hope this helps...

--- Tom Parquette <bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> NOEL BALANSAG wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
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> Noel,
>  From your description I'm assuming you are going into single user mode.
> 
>  It sounds like fstab is pointing in the wrong place.
> If you can figure out where your /usr filesystem is you can issue a 
> mount command to remount it.
> Once you have /usr mounted, "ee" should work for you.
> Hope this helps.
> Cheers...
> 
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