Bonehead move!

[John M Phillips]

If you are lucky enough that fsck dumps you into a shell, then
run the command
	mount -o remount,rw /

You then should be able to edit and save the corrected fstab.

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 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?
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
> 
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