At 11:07 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Hmmmm.... that's not what I got - it was definitely green on black and I'm pretty sure it was 50 rows - it would have been pretty shocking to me if it were not, so I am quite sure of this.In single user mode, what you get is very bare bones. A lot of stuff like enviroment variables that would normally get setup for you won't have been. Your modifications to the console video settings won't have happened by that point in the boot sequence either. You'll get standard 25 rows, 80 columns, white text on black.
I went into single user as advised in the manual: shutdown now. But then I used bash... :((
When you boot into single user mode, you should just hit return at the prompt and take the default shell. What you'll get is actually /bin/sh --- remember at that time only the root partition is mounted, so the only programs you'll definitely have available to run are the statically linked ones from /bin and /sbin. It's only after you've done a 'mount -a', that you should be able to run pretty much anything installed on the system.To set an environment variable in /bin/sh, the syntax is exactly as I wrote above: TERM=cons25 sets TERM as an ordinary variable (only visible from the current process), and export TERM promotes it to an environment variable (visible from all descendant processes of the current one).
Thanks for your patience. This really clears the fog-in-the-brain... :)) PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
