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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!olivea!wetware!wsrcc.com!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to boot single user? Date: 15 Aug 1995 07:00:51 GMT Organization: posix power! Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <FN.95Aug15000051@big-brother.pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> References: <40p5s0$75p@anshar.shadow.net> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: big-brother.csrv.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net's message of 14 Aug 1995 23:55:44 -0400 Cc: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net In article <40p5s0$75p@anshar.shadow.net> dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside) writes: $ 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 single users, type fsck -p mount -u -o rw / (this is in /etc/rc, btw) mount the other filesystems (if necessary) and edit away.