On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:57:55PM -0800, Andy R wrote:
> --- Mitchell <macfreak4@mac.com> wrote:
> > I have a small problem with my login name and password.  I
> > don't know how to create one and I am running in root on my
> > mac68k Quadra 610.  If I try to create a new user it states
> > that I am a read-only file system.  I anyone has a solution
> > please reply.
>
> Are you in single user mode? If so, you can't add a
> user. Normally the machine only complains about the filesystem
> being read-only in single user mode...
>
> How do you boot the machine? Does it complete and give you a
> login: prompt?
>
> Andy

I was wondering if Mitchell may have forgotten to edit
"/etc/rc.conf"? If the variable "rc_configured" is not set to
"YES" in that file, then the system will go into single-user
mode.

Andreas

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Andreas Kahari, Dunedin, New Zealand
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