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From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.1 : Read Only File Systm (!)
Date: 03 Jun 1997 22:28:15 GMT
Organization: OpenBSD
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Message-ID: <DERAADT.97Jun3162815@zeus.pacifier.com>
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In-reply-to: trickys@earthlink.net's message of 1 Jun 1997 00:50:36 GMT
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In article <424B30CA13EE749F.9F396D3A8ADE8B29.9FE5124E9F0CD791@library-proxy.airnews.net> trickys@earthlink.net (Stefan Sinclair) writes:

   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!

Stefan had `ufs' in his /etc/fstab lines.  I have fixed mount(8) to
deal with this better, in the post 2.1 tree.  It will warn, and will
act as if it `ffs'.
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