> I've installed RiscBSD, and got as far as installing the base etc, kernel
> and misc sets...
> 
> however, when I boot it up, root is mounted as read only.
> 
> how do I rectify this ?

Modern versions of *BSD do this mount the root read-only at boot time
in order to allow you to fsck the root safely..

Do a `mount -u /' to make it writeable

Actually, when booting single user for maintainance, i generally do a 

	  fsck -p
	  mount -av

.. to get to the point where I can do stuff..