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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp.earthlink.net!trickys From: trickys@earthlink.net (Stefan Sinclair) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.1 : Read Only File Systm (!) Date: 5 Jun 1997 00:02:19 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <slrn5pc06l.gri.trickys@Durandal.none> References: <424B30CA13EE749F.9F396D3A8ADE8B29.9FE5124E9F0CD791@library-proxy.airnews.net> <DERAADT.97Jun3162815@zeus.pacifier.com> Reply-To: trickys@doomhammer.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip194.lincoln.ne.pub-ip.psi.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6062 Yes, I found & fixed the trouble, and also found the OpenBSD ngs :-) Thanks, -Stefan On 03 Jun 1997 22:28:15 GMT, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com> wrote: >In article <424B30CA13EE749F.9F396D3A8ADE8B29.9FE5124E9F0CD791@library-proxy.airnews.net> trickys@earthlink.net (Stefan Sinclair) writes: > > 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! > >Stefan had `ufs' in his /etc/fstab lines. I have fixed mount(8) to >deal with this better, in the post 2.1 tree. It will warn, and will >act as if it `ffs'. >-- >This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@openbsd.org >www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night. >(If it wasn't so fascinating I might get some sleep myself...)