Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:25:23 +0100 From: Richard Smith <rdls@rdls.net> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <20010517012523.A326@gaia.home.rdls.net> In-Reply-To: <20010517091433.N26110@welearn.com.au>; from sue@welearn.com.au on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:14:34AM %2B1000 References: <092901c0de59$7075ae30$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010516225130.26057.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> <20010517091433.N26110@welearn.com.au>
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:14:34AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > > Tim, see the FAQ under System Administration where it explains > what to do if you've lost your root password. > Your /usr/partition is not mounted at that stage, which is > why you can't see (or use) its contents. > > [...] At the question about the shell to use, hit ENTER. You'll be > dropped to a # prompt. Enter mount -u / to remount your root > filesystem read/write, then run mount -a to remount all the > filesystems. Run passwd root to change the root password then run > exit to continue booting. Why does the FAQ suggest that the `mount -u /' command precede the `mount -a' command when both mount(8) and experiment show it as being unnecessary? i.e. a simple `mount -a' achieves the same result. Rich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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