On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, James D. Skee wrote:
> 
> Since I do not know how to use ex or ed, and vi isnt usable in single-user
> mode, I ended up using BBEdit Lite to edit the rc.conf file after using the
> Installer (in MacOS) to "cpout" the rc.conf file, then edit it, and "cpin".
> 
>From single-user mode, "mount -a ; su -l" sets up root's full login
environment, with a sane PATH, TERM & TERMCAP. Then vi will work. In fact,
you'll hardly notice that you're in single-user mode unless you try to
do something that requires the network to be up.