Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:08:54 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Colin Jack <colin@mainline.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Help! Message-ID: <19990425020854.A254@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990424155342.2095O-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 03:54:29PM -0500 References: <19990424172653.B256@marder-1> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990424155342.2095O-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 03:54:29PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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?
>
You are quite correct; I was doing it from memory, which depletes
with age (I've only got ~128KB now ;-) )
> -Alfred
>
>
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