Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:36:58 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> To: Nelson Tsai <shiver@mailandnews.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000111083658.A1196@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <003e01bf5b9f$14b1fd80$05e42dd1@futuresouth.com>; from shiver@mailandnews.com on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:15:28PM -0600 References: <003e01bf5b9f$14b1fd80$05e42dd1@futuresouth.com>
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:15:28PM -0600, Nelson Tsai wrote:
> hi,there:
> thank you for all replies. I still can't solve the problem.
> I logged in as a single user mode and also mounted
> file systems needed with command "mount -w" .
> ex: mount -w /dev/wd0s2f /usr
> I tried to use "vi", "chsh" and "vipw" to edit files but the
> error message showed me that the file systems are
> read-only.
Looks like you didn't mount your / file-system read-write. Try:
mount -a
instead of multiple mounts.
Jonathan Chen
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