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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: fixing and instalation
To: jeanmarc@starfleet.umd.edu
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:00:07 MET
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In-Reply-To: <32CCFE8E.4120@starfleet.umd.edu>; from "Jean-Marc Henriette" at Jan 03, 97 7:41 am
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> 
> 	the goal I set in mind was to remove the msdos mount from fstab
> (figuring that is whats causing it to hang) it never gets to the part
> where it fixes the superblk. I got the fixit.flp image and ran that,
> tried to mount the hard-drive so I could edit that file.. but no go it
> won't let me mount it because it was shut down improperly. 
Do a readonly mount(8). (mount -r . . .). Then run fsck on the partition.
Then mount again with the updateflag (-u) for r/w. Then change your fstab.
Hope this helps!          

Wolfgang Helbig