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Date:      Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:44:36 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        "Tony D'Andrade" <blue@visinet.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New Installation (fwd)
Message-ID:  <19971022154435.22757@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971022155717.13226A-100000@ceylon.visinet.ca>; from Tony D'Andrade on Oct 10, 1997 at 03:58:11PM -0400
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.971022155717.13226A-100000@ceylon.visinet.ca>

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On Oct 10, 1997 at 03:58:11PM -0400, Tony D'Andrade wrote:
> 
> Hi does anyone know how i can boot up in single user mode where i can edit
> files in the /etc directory ???

at the boot: prompt, enter ``-s'' for single user mode.

after coming up single user, do:  ``mount -u rw /'' to re-mount
your root filesystem read-write.  (You may need to do a fsck/reboot
first, if the filesystem is dirty).
--
Jonathan



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