From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 4: 2: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FEC14CBB for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 04:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:04:56 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179679@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'Rahul Dhesi' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: recommended procedure to set ip address and gateway? Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:59:19 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Rahul Dhesi [SMTP:dhesi@rahul.net] > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 10:42 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: recommended procedure to set ip address and gateway? > > > Booting the machine into single-user mode (with 'boot -s') leaves the > root disk mounted read-only, and I see that /usr is not mounted and > 'vi' > is not available. Working around this and editing /etc/rc.conf is > possible but too complicated to write down on a small slip of paper > to be stuck to the machine before delivering it to the customer. [ML] boot -s mount -u -o rw / /stand/sysinstall (and change the network setup) How about that? /Marino > Rahul Dhesi > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message