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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:14:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Xiongying Yang <ubap741@sun308.ccs.bbk.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fixit.flp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970214101246.1369B-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199702141132.DAA14150@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Xiongying Yang wrote:

> Hi, doug, thanks for your message about boot manager...
> another question:
> I tried to run fixit.flp to fix a problem in my /etc/ttys of my system
> lying on /dev/wd0s3
> what i did was to:
> mount /dev/wd0s3 /mnt
> 
> 
> the message i got was something like "Operation not Permitted"
> How can i fix my system if I can not mount it?

Try booting with '-s' on the command line instead to boot to single user
mode.  

Once you get a shell, type 'mount -u /' then 'mount -a', then you should
be able to modify /etc/ttys.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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