From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 18 23:21: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mars.junctionnet.com (mars.junctionnet.com [206.75.89.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC2F14E36 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fybar@junctionnet.com) Received: from junctionnet.com (jts2-104.connect.ab.ca [206.75.89.104]) by mars.junctionnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA19747; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:22:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3792D1F8.A72B2C7A@junctionnet.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:21:28 -0700 From: Trevor Osatchuk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, fybar@junctionnet.com Subject: rc.conf problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I edited my rc.conf file and when I rebooted I got an message stating that I had an open pair of ""'s.(I know, newbie mistake) I can only boot into a read only situation and I can't get the boot floppy from the release to allow me to get out of the installation process and mount the hard drive to fix my error. Can I make or get a boot disk? Is there a way that I can get into my system and make the changes, ie override the read only? Obviously, I would prefer not to reinstall. Thank-you for your time, Trevor Osatchuk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message