Hello,
My file system is read only, so I looked into the archives, and it said to
do "mount -u -o rw /" fix the read only problem.  I do that but I get this
message:
mount: Cannot open '/etc/fstab': No such file or directory
mount_ffs: root_device on /: No such file or directory.

When I do "ls -l fstab", I get the following:
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 17 Ocs 25 20:15 fstab -> etc.current/fstab

The same is true for rc.conf, inetd.conf, mrouted.conf, nsswitch.conf,
ntp.conf, and resolv.conf.  The directory etc.current does not exist in
/etc!  They're all dead links!  How do I get out of this predicament?
Thanks,
Yasir Malik

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Yasir Malik wrote:

> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:28:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Yasir Malik <ymalik@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
> To: NetBSD mailing list <port-i386@netbsd.org>
> Subject: NetBSD won't boot
>
> Hello,
> I used to the newbtconf program in order to have multiple boot
> configurations, one for the network and one for without the network.  I
> followed the directions in the man page exactly, and when I booted again,
> I typed 'nonet' to prevent connecting to the network.  I wanted to make
> 'nonet' default, so I did the following:
> rm /etc/etc.default
> ln -s /etc/etc.nonet /etc/etc.default
>
> When I rebooted, I got this message that I don't remember, and then this
> message kept on appearing:
> Oct 25 21:16:23 init : can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port
> /dev/console: No such file or directory.
>
> I rebooted, and this message came up:
> .: Can't open	/etc/rc.conf
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
>
> I can't use many of the commands.  What do I do?
> Thanks,
> Yasir Malik
>