On 09-Mar-98 Staffan Bengtsson wrote:
> It took a long time before I actually suceeded in editing and saving a file
> in
> VI. The installation manual does not give me any help at all, it only tells
> me
> to use "VI". Is there any manual or DOC aviable somewhere for VI so I can
> learn to use it, or is there any other editing tool in netBSD 1.3 ?
> 
> I have edited fstab, incorrectly... And now the system claims that it is a
> read-only system and vi refuses to save new changes for fstab.
> Is there any help anywhere how fstab should be edited?

Just remount your drive readwrite;

%mount -rw /

usually does the trick. Then you can edit your fstab.
vi is a tricky program to learn, but after...6 years at it, I've gotten
quite good.

A quick search of yahoo yielded a vi tutorial;

http://ECN.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/

In a hurry, you can also edit files with 'cat'
ie;

%cat > /etc/fstab
(enter everything here, make no mistakes)
^D
%

If you have PINE installed, 'pico' works also as an editor.

Good luck,
                nate