From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 19:53:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AD737B7D6 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA05751; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:46:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200006130246.WAA05751@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Micke Sundberg" Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:27:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20000612172030.21322.qmail@web3105.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: sysinstall starts on startup Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:20:30 +0200 (CEST), Micke Sundberg wrote: >People say that I should use "Fixit -> Shell" and >mount all partitions. Correct. >But "mount" don't work in that and it is only read >only. What do you you mean by "mount" don't work? I believe that you can change "/" from "ro" to "rw" by typing 'mount -w /' When sysinstall is up can you switch to a different console? Does sysinstall starts after all the daemons are up? If so do you have another box you could use to telnet/ssh into this box? >sysinstall is probably starting from /etc/rc but I >can't open it because I have no editor. mount -a This should mount all your entries in /etc/fstab To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message