Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:04:28 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Daniel Lees <dan_lees@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: danlees@earthlink.net Subject: Re: Damaged rc.conf file Message-ID: <02022613042804.00300@proxy.pt.com> In-Reply-To: <20020226180237.61363.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020226180237.61363.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 26 February 2002 13:02, Daniel Lees wrote: > > I cannot get to root and I cannot edit any files. > When I try to "ed rc.conf" so I can fix the file I get > the reply: > > "/tmp/ed.nxI103: Read-only file system" > > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.3. I've considered > fdisking, formatting, and installing 4.5. What should > I do? Thanks in advance for any help. "mount -a" once you get to the shell prompt should mount the / filesystem read/write and allow you to edit the files to fix the problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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