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Subject: Re: HELP! unbootable due to rc.conf
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Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> 
> > One other note, there _is_ an editor on the root partition. The
> > Almighty ed(1).
> >
> > ed, man. man ed.
> 
>         The original question was cross posted to -newbies. We try not to
> frighten the young ones. ;)
> 

I had my very first encounter with ed a little while back due to this
very same problem. Made me so frustrated I was even wishing vi was in /
! (Fortunately I had a second FBSD machine running so I could "ed, man.
man ed")
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Paul Murphy
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