Re: Oops



In the last episode (Jan 31), Darryl Hoar said:
it boots up and dumps me into single user. When I try to change
/etc/fstab, it tells me that the parition is mounted read only.

do

mount -uw /dev/gm0s1a /

and then edit

how can I mount / again when its already mounted ? When I said
single user, maybe that wasn't the right thing to say. When I tell
it the root partition (/dev/mirror/gm0s1a), it then asks me to choose
a shell (bin/sh being the default). When I select the shell it takes
me to a command line where only / is mounted.

-u tells mount to update an existing mountpoint.

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