From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 13:17:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8492D37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:17:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzcluster.liwest.at (lilzclust01.liwest.at [212.33.55.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84C243FB1 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from CM58-27.liwest.at by lilzcluster.liwest.at (8.10.2/1.1.2.11/08Jun01-1123AM) id h1ALHQ90000821393; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:17:26 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniela To: Bill Moran Subject: Re: installworld fails Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:17:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200302092151.18233.dgw@liwest.at> <200302102153.08112.dgw@liwest.at> <3E481399.5040900@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3E481399.5040900@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302102217.37478.dgw@liwest.at> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 10 February 2003 22:03, Bill Moran wrote: > Then you weren't in single user mode. > Single user mode mounts the / partition as read-only. If you > failed to do a 'mount -a' (which will remount it read/write) > everything else will definately fail. > > Do you have a "one big partition" system? No, I rebooted first and then went to single user mode with "shutdown now= "=20 after logging in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message