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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [sing boot] help
Date: 30 Oct 1996 18:31:31 -0000
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In article <554trf$2lu@usenet.kornet.nm.kr>,
comlab@taeback.kornet.nm.kr (DongHo Lee (kornet)) writes:
: in first, I reboot with single mode ( on booting, I put "-s" option)
: but I can olny mount root with read-only. I can't modified or
: copy the other files related to passwd. I tried to copy spwd.db of
: other freeBSD machine to my system . I failed.
If (in single-user mode) you "mount -u /", "mount /usr" and "pwd_mkdb",
your problems should go away.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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