From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 15:21:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A9537B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts22.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E0A43E7B for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pippo@bellnet.ca) Received: from pippo.bellnet.ca ([65.94.100.111]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021024222125.YJVI14348.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@pippo.bellnet.ca>; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:21:25 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024181808.00aae038@pop51.bellnet.ca> X-Sender: lesp3999@pop51.bellnet.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:21:25 -0400 To: Matthew Seaman From: pippo@bellnet.ca Subject: Re: how to add space Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021024220738.GB1424@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024161852.00aa3800@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024125901.00aad960@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024125901.00aad960@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024161852.00aa3800@pop51.bellnet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:07 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote: >In single user mode, what you get is very bare bones. A lot of stuff >like enviroment variables that would normally get setup for you won't >have been. Your modifications to the console video settings won't >have happened by that point in the boot sequence either. You'll get >standard 25 rows, 80 columns, white text on black. Hmmmm.... that's not what I got - it was definitely green on black and I'm pretty sure it was 50 rows - it would have been pretty shocking to me if it were not, so I am quite sure of this. I went into single user as advised in the manual: shutdown now. But then I used bash... :(( >When you boot into single user mode, you should just hit return at the >prompt and take the default shell. What you'll get is actually >/bin/sh --- remember at that time only the root partition is mounted, >so the only programs you'll definitely have available to run are the >statically linked ones from /bin and /sbin. It's only after you've >done a 'mount -a', that you should be able to run pretty much anything >installed on the system. > >To set an environment variable in /bin/sh, the syntax is exactly as I >wrote above: > > TERM=cons25 > >sets TERM as an ordinary variable (only visible from the current >process), and > > export TERM > >promotes it to an environment variable (visible from all descendant >processes of the current one). Thanks for your patience. This really clears the fog-in-the-brain... :)) PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message