Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:36:37 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP Message-ID: <20001023103637.D72755@gray.westgate.gr>
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Devon,
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:27:15AM -0700, Devon Young wrote:
>
> Thanx, but how do I do that before I can even boot it up? I don't
> have an internet connection available for it. Should I just try
> installing it without sendmail initially? Or is there an online doc
> somewhere that could help me figure out a way? Sorry if these are
> stupid questions :)
You can always boot the system in single user mode to fix such errors
that are present in your startup scripts. You want to set
sendmail_enable="NO"
in your /etc/rc.conf, and have the system boot normally, so you can fix
the DNS setup.
Just boot into single user mode, mount all the filesystems as usual,
fire up your favorite text editor (/usr/bin/ee is a very easy to
use editor that is included in the base-system, if you haven't used
/usr/bin/vi before), modify /etc/rc.conf, and exit from single user
mode. The system should come up without starting sendmail.
Then you can fix your hostname problems ;-)
- giorgos
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