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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:26:12 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Phumichit Saeueng <b40phs@ku.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.970915102417.5550A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970914140839.27348A-100000@nontri.ku.ac.th>

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On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Phumichit Saeueng wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
[snip]

> > Boot in single-user mode:
> > 
> >   Boot: -s
> > 
> 	Thank you for answer me.
> 	And this way cannot do anything with system because / was mounted
>   by system to be readonly. You cannot place the lost passwd file with 
>   backup,right? I'm not sure. Because I'm new for FreeBSD.

Please read Greg's reply in full. He *DOES* mention that:

	mount -u /

will make the filesystem writable.
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