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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

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