Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

Maude User maudeuser at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 25 13:48:51 PDT 2005


Micah wrote:
> The option you are looking for is "fixit" from the install disk menu. 
> This'll get you a command prompt.  You will have to manually mount the 
> partion that boot is on then you can delete, rename, edit, etc the file 
> in question. 

 

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Micah -- Thank you for your answer -- sounds like it should work!
I found a website which gives some more detail:
http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/technotes/fixit.html
- Scott Alexander
 
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