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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!testpattern.telstra.net!usenet From: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to boot single user with root partition writable ? Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:39:28 +1000 Organization: Telstra Internet Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31BCC040.41C67EA6@telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pizza.telstra.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) I did a bit of disk re-organising recently and found myself in a position where I had no /usr but I needed to make some changes in /etc before putting /usr back. I needed to re-label a disk while in this state so used the fixit floppy. disklabel -e sd0 could not be done without /usr/bin/vi so I made /usr/bin and did a link to /mnt2/stand/vi It worked but there must be a neater way. 1) Booting with the -s option seems to make the root partition read-only. How do you get around that ? 2) What is the best way to make a bootable floppy which has a reasonable no. of maintenance commands available OR is the fixit floppy the best way ? Thanks