From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Dec 22 15:41:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nexttown.buckhorn.net (nexttown.buckhorn.net [207.18.130.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F126215674 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from buckhorn.net (nexttown.buckhorn.net [207.18.130.2]) by nexttown.buckhorn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA86472; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:40:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <38616184.FF154287@buckhorn.net> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:40:52 -0600 From: Bob Martin Reply-To: Bob@buckhorn.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James A Wilde Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: readonly filesystem to read-write References: <04dc01bf4cbf$e726fde0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James A Wilde wrote: > > Hi: > > I loaded FBSD 3.1 on an old pentium today. The network card was not working > so I > added some lines to rc.conf. Unfortunately the first of these lacked the " > before the value > so the boot process bombed out at, presumably, single user stage. No > editors were available > except ed but ed couldn't do anything since the file system was readonly. I > can't mv the file > either for the same reason. > > How do I change the state of the file system to read-write so that I can at > least boot the > system all the way and then repair the file with vi? > > TIA > > mvh/regards > > James > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Assuming a standard installation: umount / mount / mount /usr Bob Martin -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message