From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Dec 12 13:35:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from g38.rdsbv.ro (catv-193-231-237-197.rdsbv.ro [193.231.237.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B4D37B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:35:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from k (petre@petre [192.168.10.5]) by g38.rdsbv.ro (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fBCLZAj02141; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:35:11 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Petre Bandac Organization: g38 To: Annelise Anderson Subject: Re: oops I did it again :-) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:35:05 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01121223350503.00192@k> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org the part with mount /dev/ad .... worked, and I may praise myself I got the idea before reading your mail - anyways thanks very much for your help. one last question - call me lazy because I didn't RTFM - but the kernel stuff is the same like in linux - for every extra thing I need - quota support and other stuff - I must recompile, right ? but where are the sources ? [stupid question, isn't it ? :-)] now the last thing I need to config is the X Window and I can say I got a fully functionable freebsd box ... thanks again, petre On Wednesday 12 December 2001 19:38, Annelise Anderson wrote using one of his keyboards: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Petre Bandac wrote: > > edited /etc/fstab for userquota but it says the kernel ain't supporting > > it > > > > :-) > > > > now it's being mounted as read-only and I can't undo the changes to > > fstab; what's the line I must write at boot time so I can mount the > > partition (I'm talking about the root partition /) read-write. > > > > thanks in advance > > > > petre > > I think typing mount -u / > should work. This won't give you any editor but ed, a line editor, > however, because for those you need to mount your /usr file system. > Since /etc/fstab is corrupted, you can't do mount -a. So you need > to use /sbin/mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt (adjusting as required for file > system and mountpoint). It may help to type > /bin/cat /etc/fstab > so you have the contents of /etc/fstab on the screen to look at > to get the info on the file systems. > > Annelise > > If you have a bad line in fstab for mounting /, you may have to > type /sbin/smount /dev/ad0s1a / instead of mount -u / -- 11:30pm up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.31, 0.14 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message