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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.he.net!stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!news.er.usgs.gov!mcmcnews.er.usgs.gov!johns From: johns@cs.umr.edu (John Stone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.1 : Read Only File Systm (!) Date: 1 Jun 1997 07:16:09 GMT Organization: Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5mr7jp$sq6@pluto.er.usgs.gov> References: <slrn5p1hhj.hq.trickys@Durandal.none> NNTP-Posting-Host: jedi.heuris.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6030 In article <slrn5p1hhj.hq.trickys@Durandal.none>, Stefan Sinclair <trickys@doomhammer.com> wrote: >OK, I finally got a *BSD system to work on my old Mac LCII - OpenBSD 2.1. >It boots fine & everything, but I can't do anything because I get an error >message saying: "Filesystem is read-only." An ls -al showed that I *should* >have write-access to the expected places. chmod +w was useless. What's the >deal here? I've installed OpenBSD on an external 330MB HD, with 100MB left >to a Mac HFS partition. I'm booting using the bsd-generic kernel, located on >the Mac partition. Any help on this subject would be much appreciated! Try this: mount -u / John Stone johns@heuris.com