From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 24 18:41: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand3.global.net.uk (sand3.global.net.uk [194.126.80.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE9214DD6 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from pbfs01a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.209.192] helo=marder-1.) by sand3.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 10bDug-00009I-00; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:40:54 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id CAA00274; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:08:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:08:54 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Colin Jack , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Help! Message-ID: <19990425020854.A254@marder-1> References: <19990424172653.B256@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 03:54:29PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 03:54:29PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 05:22:19PM +0100, Colin Jack wrote: > > > I am a newbie learning to get to grips with FreeBSD and I have dropped > > > myself in it! > > > > > > I have not set the path to my shell correctly for the root (using vipw) and > > > cannot now get in. I think I need to get in as a single user and run vipw > > > again, but I am using version 3.1 and I don't get a boot: prompt to type -s > > > at! > > > > > > Is there a different method of getting in in single user mode in version > > > 3.x? > > > > > > > Read the message whilst it's counting down to the boot. Press any > > key (except space) and you get a boot prompt where you can enter > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ * > > ``boot -c'' just like before. > > * i think you mean "enter/return" no? > You are quite correct; I was doing it from memory, which depletes with age (I've only got ~128KB now ;-) ) > -Alfred > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message