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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!mr.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to boot single user with root partition writable ? Date: 11 Jun 1996 08:00:53 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4pj93l$o8@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <31BCC040.41C67EA6@telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <31BCC040.41C67EA6@telstra.net>, Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> wrote: >I did a bit of disk re-organising recently and found myself in a >position where I had no /usr but I needed to make some changes in /etc >before putting /usr back. > >I needed to re-label a disk while in this state so used the fixit >floppy. disklabel -e sd0 could not be done without /usr/bin/vi so I >made /usr/bin and did a link to /mnt2/stand/vi >It worked but there must be a neater way. ed? It's in /bin for that very reason (statically linked so you don't need /usr, line mode so you can use it even if the terminal's acting strangely). >1) Booting with the -s option seems to make the root partition >read-only. How do you get around that ? mount -u -w / >2) What is the best way to make a bootable floppy which has a reasonable >no. of maintenance commands available OR is the fixit floppy the best >way ? The fixit floppy is the best way. Unfortunately making a boot floppy for FreeBSD is not a simple task, although I believe someone is working on it. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG