From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 22:49:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08182 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:49:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from namodn.com (namodn.com [207.33.107.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08175 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@namodn.com) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost) by namodn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25306; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:53:36 GMT (envelope-from robert@namodn.com) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:53:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert To: alissa bader 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 Maybe I shouldn't go around suggesting all this weird stuff :) Just remember those two magic words, "Don't panic." On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, alissa bader 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. Did you make sure the entry is "noauto" ? > > 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, Do a -s to get into single user mode at the FreeBSD boot prompt. > 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. > -rob ( www.namodn.com ) ( robert@namodn.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message