From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 15:28: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A292937B5D8 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:27:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [12.21.241.164] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id oa049232 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:27:42 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00350; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:27:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: "Gary Landers" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: fstab - OK I screwed up Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:25:57 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000f01bf8930$16f14790$0cf6fcce@tein.net> In-Reply-To: <000f01bf8930$16f14790$0cf6fcce@tein.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030818273907.00230@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Gary Landers wrote: > I am moving a system to a new hdd. I forgot redo the fstab file so now it > errors on boot. I can get a prompt and cat the file but get a "file system > read only" whenever I try to correct it. Is there any way to get in to > modify the fstab at this point. I have a copy of the correct fstab as > fstab.bak in /etc. > > PS this is the second time I have made this mistake, the first time I wiped > out the new HDD and started over at the beginning. I can do this but am > hoping to find an easier way. > > Gary Landers > You might want to try getting to it using the "Fixit" disk. You access that from /stand/sysinstall, in this case your boot floppies. From Fixit you can mount your / slice and edit /etc/fstab. -- Walter Brameld Join the Army. Meet interesting people. Kill them. TANSTAAFL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message