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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:36:58 +1300
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>
To: Nelson Tsai <shiver@mailandnews.com>
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[What exactly is your question?]

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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