Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:30:14 -0600 (CST) From: mailing list account <lists@argus.flash.net> To: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! My fstab is messed up and I can't edit it. Message-ID: <199601170830.CAA01319@argus.flash.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9601170225.A3655-0100000@solar.os.com> from "Craig Shrimpton" at Jan 17, 96 02:13:08 am
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> Greetings, > > My fstab contains an invalid drive and it fails to mount / read-write at > boot time. Unless I can edit /etc/fstab I'm stuck. How do you overcome > this problem? I don't have a boot disk handy :-( I have the install disk > but it has no shell. I did this once.. Boot the install disk. Have it install something small [NOT /ETC!!!] once the mounts are done, you then have the emergancy holographic shell over on alt-f4... edit away... Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@argus.flash.net - FlashNet Communications - Ft. Worth, Texas
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