From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 10: 5:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E277C37B405 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 55421 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2002 18:13:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2002 18:13:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: Daniel Lees , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Damaged rc.conf file Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:04:28 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: danlees@earthlink.net References: <20020226180237.61363.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020226180237.61363.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02022613042804.00300@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 26 February 2002 13:02, Daniel Lees wrote: > > I cannot get to root and I cannot edit any files. > When I try to "ed rc.conf" so I can fix the file I get > the reply: > > "/tmp/ed.nxI103: Read-only file system" > > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.3. I've considered > fdisking, formatting, and installing 4.5. What should > I do? Thanks in advance for any help. "mount -a" once you get to the shell prompt should mount the / filesystem read/write and allow you to edit the files to fix the problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message