Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:46:33 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: paulseeger@sprintmail.com, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: file permissions Message-ID: <19981117224633.A4827@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3651D0CE.C77DF5C4@seattleu.edu> References: <3651AF5E.E307297D@sprintmail.com> <3651D0CE.C77DF5C4@seattleu.edu>
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> Paul Seeger wrote: > > > > I have just installed bsd on my machine. its a dual boot setup on a 1.6 > > gig split in two. Dos on one partition and bsd on the other. that part > > seems to work ok. upon logging on the system says to type > > /stand/sysinstall. this does not work from either the $ or # prompt. i > > tried to change the permissions on sysinstall and the system says that > > my file system is read only. Help. I just want to get this thing > > working so that I can play with unix. The file system shouldn't be read-only, do you see any errors when you reboot? If not, you'll have to make sure your filesystems are labelled rw in /etc/fstab, not ro, eg: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/wd2s4b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0s3a / ufs rw,async,noatime 1 1 /dev/wd2s1c /tmp ufs rw,async 2 2 /dev/wd2s2e /usr ufs rw,async 2 2 /dev/wd2s3e /var ufs rw,async,nosuid 2 2 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 What does your current /etc/fstab look like? File systems being read-only will happen if you boot up in single user mode. (In this case, only your / fs will be mounted. Any others (/usr, etc) won't be. You'll have to type exit at the # prompt to make it come up multi-user after fixing any problems there might be.) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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