Bonehead move!
Bill Fink
billfink at mindspring.com
Fri Sep 24 20:25:40 MDT 2004
On Fri Sep 24 2004, Doug wrote:
> During my quest to install YDL 3.0.1 on my iMac, I have managed to mess
> up my fstab file. I was making the changes needed to allow use of my
> server drives and managed to copy the wrong fstab file the the /etc
> directory. Now when I try to boot I get an error stating the filesystem
> cannot be found on /dev/hda13. No kidding, that's because it's on
> /dev/hda10! As long as I've been using Linux, I've never had a
> situation like this before. I can input my root password and see the
> files, but am unable to copy the correct fstab file back to the location
> it needs to be because of the read-only status. Is there a way to get
> the ability to copy the file to it's correct location?
Something like "mount -o remount,rw /".
-Bill
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