From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 22 13:40:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA25755 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (hunt@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA25748 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:40:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from hunt@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15538; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 16:40:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hunt) Message-ID: <19971022164015.10333@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 16:40:15 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: "Tony D'Andrade" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Installation (fwd) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Tony D'Andrade on Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 03:58:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 03:58:11PM -0400, Tony D'Andrade wrote: > Hi does anyone know how i can boot up in single user mode where i can edit > files in the /etc directory ??? Sure. At the Booteasy "Boot:" prompt, type "-s" without the quotes and hit enter. You'll boot into single user mode. Other such options are described in "man boot". Since you want to change things on the disk, you will need to remount the root filesystem read-write, since it initially mounts read-only. You can normally do that with: mount -u -w / If /usr is a separate partition, you may need to mount it so that you can use vi or other tools that you prefer. If /etc/fstab is in good shape, then you should be able to: mount /usr Hope this helps. -- Matthew Hunt * Think locally, act globally. finger hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu for PGP public key.