From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 11: 7:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEB2137B40B for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.225) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 18:07:41 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:14:41 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd newbies Subject: finally fixed my /etc directory Message-Id: <20010915141441.4acab423.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i *FINALLY* got /etc fixed, it involved installing and old copy of freebsd 4.2 over the existing copy so that it would boot, backing up my stuff, blowing it all away again and installing from cd. i also found that typing /kernel boots my machine into single user mode, boot -s!!! what causes that? nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message