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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!dragon.nuxi.com!obrien From: David O'Brien <deobrien@ucdavis.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,ods.unix Subject: Re: root passwd Date: 31 Dec 1996 20:47:26 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5abu4u$cjq$3@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <59trj6$k2p@gulfa.kuwait.net> <32C67D1C.7747@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: deobrien@ucdavis.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: reqb-049.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961203] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33411 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> wrote: : At the boot prompt, enter: : boot: -s : to boot into the single user mode. : After boot is complete, mount all the file systems: : mount -a You will probably need to do "mount -u /" to make your / partition writeable. -- -- David (deobrien@ucdavis.edu)