From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 22 13:45:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA26131 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA26108 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17198; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:45:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id PAA21058; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:44:36 -0500 Message-ID: <19971022154435.22757@right.PCS> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:44:36 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon 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 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Tony D'Andrade on Oct 10, 1997 at 03:58:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Oct 10, 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 ??? at the boot: prompt, enter ``-s'' for single user mode. after coming up single user, do: ``mount -u rw /'' to re-mount your root filesystem read-write. (You may need to do a fsck/reboot first, if the filesystem is dirty). -- Jonathan