On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Manny-inki-Ramirez wrote:

> I've gotten NetBSD to boot but when I try to make any changes or even make
> a dir I get a "read-only file system." I've looked everywhere on the web
> and installation instructions but the doc's seem pretty limited. Any help
> greatly appreciated. Thanks.

first, type 'mount', so that it will show you what device is mounted on
root.  Then, type 'mount -u /dev/sdxx' but replace the xx with the device
as given from the invocation of mount before it.  Either that, or just
type exit to boot into multi-user mode.

Later,

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