From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 14 15:37:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA07089 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 15:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iconz.co.nz (iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA07078 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 15:37:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by iconz.co.nz (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA29955; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:32:14 +1200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id KAA16936; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:32:13 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01575; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:26:13 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA05568; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:26:12 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:26:12 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Phumichit Saeueng cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Jonathan Chen e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Pinnacle Software Ltd Voice : +64.9.415.4460 Auckland, New Zealand Fax : +64.9.415.4250