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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.1 : Read Only File Systm (!)
Date: 3 Jun 1997 12:56:27 -0400
Organization: Panix
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In article <424B30CA13EE749F.9F396D3A8ADE8B29.9FE5124E9F0CD791@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
Stefan Sinclair <trickys@doomhammer.com> wrote:
>OK, I finally got a *BSD system to work on my old Mac LCII - OpenBSD 2.1.
>It boots fine & everything, but I can't do anything because I get an error
>message saying: "Filesystem is read-only." An ls -al showed that I *should*
>have write-access to the expected places. chmod +w was useless. What's the
>deal here? I've installed OpenBSD on an external 330MB HD, with 100MB left
>to a Mac HFS partition. I'm booting using the bsd-generic kernel, located on
>the Mac partition. Any help on this subject would be much appreciated!

You might have better luck if you asked in one of the OpenBSD newsgroups,
since OpenBSD is not NetBSD and NetBSD is not OpenBSD.  There is a fine port
of NetBSD to the Macintosh which I'm sure people here could help you with.

However:  try "fsck -p;mount -a -t nonfs".  That should solve your problem.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
  "American culture, Disneyland freak show -- screen in your living room a
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