From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 20:28:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20913 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:28:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from astor.interport.net (astor.interport.net [199.184.165.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20907 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from molbloo@interport.net) Received: from interport.net (molbloo@park.nfs.interport.net [205.161.144.2]) by astor.interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA12944; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:29:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (molbloo@localhost) by interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA12300; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:27:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:27:59 -0500 (EST) From: alissa bader To: Robert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupid stupid stupid floppy question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Robert wrote: > It is useful to put an entry in /etc/fstab, just like the one for the CD, > except the filesystem would be "msdos" not "cd9660". I tried doing this and rebooting. Now apparently my computer thinks there should be a bootable, mountable file on the floppy upon startup. Because I can't get my machine to go through the startup process. It goes down the list of devices and then simply hangs, and asks for the name of the complete shell. How do I edit the /etc/fstab file when my machine won't let me login? Ok, it will let me login as root when I typed "login root" at the #prompt. But the terminal type is set at "su" and I've found that vi and ee can't recognize that. Also typing "setenv vt100" does not work. help. thanks. alissa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message