From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 00:30:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA25811 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from argus.flash.net (root@[206.149.24.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA25804 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lists@localhost) by argus.flash.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA01319; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:30:15 -0600 From: mailing list account Message-Id: <199601170830.CAA01319@argus.flash.net> Subject: Re: HELP! My fstab is messed up and I can't edit it. To: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:30:14 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Craig Shrimpton" at Jan 17, 96 02:13:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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