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From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To: Oles Hnatkevych <gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Oles Hnatkevych wrote:

>   Booting in single-user mode does not help coz root partition 
> is read-only. :-(

You've to mount the root partition explicitly (`mount /') to achieve r/w
access. May be you've to check the file systems before (`fsck'). Also
`mount /usr' to make vi available.

Konrad Heuer

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