Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:25:57 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: "Gary Landers" <gary@tein.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: fstab - OK I screwed up Message-ID: <00030818273907.00230@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <000f01bf8930$16f14790$0cf6fcce@tein.net> References: <000f01bf8930$16f14790$0cf6fcce@tein.net>
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Gary Landers wrote: > I am moving a system to a new hdd. I forgot redo the fstab file so now it > errors on boot. I can get a prompt and cat the file but get a "file system > read only" whenever I try to correct it. Is there any way to get in to > modify the fstab at this point. I have a copy of the correct fstab as > fstab.bak in /etc. > > PS this is the second time I have made this mistake, the first time I wiped > out the new HDD and started over at the beginning. I can do this but am > hoping to find an easier way. > > Gary Landers > You might want to try getting to it using the "Fixit" disk. You access that from /stand/sysinstall, in this case your boot floppies. From Fixit you can mount your / slice and edit /etc/fstab. -- Walter Brameld Join the Army. Meet interesting people. Kill them. TANSTAAFL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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