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From: rst@liciren.li.co.uk (Richard Thombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: / read only when in single user
Message-ID: <1771@lucifer.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 93 11:01:14 GMT
Organization: Electronic Control Group, Lucas Powertrain Systems, UK
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On NetBSD, when I boot into single user mode, the root filesystem is
mounted as read-only. How can I make this a writable filesystem? There
surely must be a way - how else can you change forgotten root passwords
for example?

R.
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