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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:01:43 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Patrick <patrick@popper.paradigm2000.com>
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Subject: Re: Single user mode Q
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Patrick wrote:

>    I am using 2.1.5 custom kernel. As I want to make sure my change to 
> the boot rc process can be recover by booting to single user mode. However,
> when I boot by wd(0,a)/kernel -s, the root is mount as read only. How can I
> change to read and write?

/sbin/fsck -p  (if needed)
/sbin/mount -a  (or mount the specific fs you want.)

Danny