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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!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to boot single user with root partition writable ? Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:53:28 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <31BE3F38.4487EB71@FreeBSD.org> References: <31BCC040.41C67EA6@telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> Wayne Farmer wrote: > 1) Booting with the -s option seems to make the root partition > read-only. How do you get around that ? mount -u / > 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. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project