From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 24 13:37:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF1B14F1B for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA03550; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:54:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:54:29 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Ovens Cc: Colin Jack , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Help! In-Reply-To: <19990424172653.B256@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 05:22:19PM +0100, Colin Jack wrote: > > I am a newbie learning to get to grips with FreeBSD and I have dropped > > myself in it! > > > > I have not set the path to my shell correctly for the root (using vipw) and > > cannot now get in. I think I need to get in as a single user and run vipw > > again, but I am using version 3.1 and I don't get a boot: prompt to type -s > > at! > > > > Is there a different method of getting in in single user mode in version > > 3.x? > > > > Read the message whilst it's counting down to the boot. Press any > key (except space) and you get a boot prompt where you can enter ^^^^^^^^^^^^ * > ``boot -c'' just like before. * i think you mean "enter/return" no? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message