From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 06:18:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA14471 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 06:18:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA14378 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 06:18:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA21800 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:20:13 GMT (envelope-from kuku) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:20:13 GMT From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199802181420.OAA21800@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: mounting the live FS CD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I booted the live FS CD of 2.2.5R in order to fix a problem (resp. access some partittion to make a backup and then reinstall the system). Since the root_device is mounted read-only I see no way to make it read/writable (mount -u /dev/wd0a / or somethingf doesn't seem to work). Also I got into an endless loop with the only escape pressing the reset button while editing the file /tmp/doc.tmp. BTW, is it an 'accident' that this file is there in /tmp? What has it got to do in /tmp on the CD? Or is the root_fs a memory filesystem? Anyway, I'd be grateful for the magic command line to make the root FS read/writable with the live FS CD mounted in fixit mode. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message