Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:15:46 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please Help with boot freeze Message-ID: <37094422.19DE9AD@tdx.co.uk> References: <000501be7fb9$b0ec3520$aa88fea9@inteva>
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Rick Knebel wrote: > If I hit retrn I can see the files on my hard drive but cannot bring up an > editor to fix the rc.conf file. > > I tried copying rc.conf~ to rc.conf but it says file is read only. You need to mount the filesystems by hand, try: mount -a This should mount /usr (and all the other filesystems from your /etc/fstab) - this in turn, should let you load 'vi' (or some other editor) to edit the file (as well as have the side effect of making your / filesystem read-write (if not, try "mount -u /" to remount '/' as read/write) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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