Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails toload

[Tom Parquette]

NOEL BALANSAG wrote:

hello.

pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the
command "ee" or "vi"? i recently removed partition no.
2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so
now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and =
fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into fbsd, the
system cannot see the files, and drops me into the "#"
prompt.
how do i invoke "ee" or "vi"? is it ok to just edit
the file "/etc/fstab" and reboot? is there anything
else i need to do?
thanks in advance.

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Noel,
From your description I'm assuming you are going into single user mode. 
It sounds like fstab is pointing in the wrong place.
If you can figure out where your /usr filesystem is you can issue a 
mount command to remount it.
Once you have /usr mounted, "ee" should work for you.
Hope this helps.
Cheers...

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