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From: trickys@earthlink.net (Stefan Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.1 : Read Only File Systm (!)
Date: 5 Jun 1997 00:02:19 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
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Yes, I found & fixed the trouble, and also found the OpenBSD ngs :-)
Thanks,
-Stefan

On 03 Jun 1997 22:28:15 GMT, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com> wrote:
>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'.
>--
>This space not left unintentionally unblank.		deraadt@openbsd.org
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