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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to boot single user?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 16:10:43 +0200
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Don Whiteside <dwhite@anshar.shadow.net> wrote:
>Only switch I can remember, though, boots into a read only filesystem.
>Can someone remind me how to do this? (Or be real nice and mail to me?
>please??)
boot with `-s'
fsck -p
mount -u /
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)