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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 14:33:49 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Oles Hnatkevych <gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root password forgotten
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505142923.29073B-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980505141505.13932A-100000@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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