Thank you all for helping!  I've learned quite a lot in the past 12 hours!
If this problem happened to my Windows system, I don't know what I'd do.
Thanks,
Yasir Malik

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, David Maxwell wrote:

> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:44:24 -0500
> From: David Maxwell <david@crlf.net>
> To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
> Cc: NetBSD mailing list <port-i386@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: NetBSD won't boot
>
> > 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.
>
> Use mount -u -o rw /dev/wdXX /
>
> Where XX is the partition for '/'. In the former command line, mount
> would insert that for you, by looking it up in fstab.
>
> > When I do "ls -l fstab", I get the following:
> > lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 17 Ocs 25 20:15 fstab -> etc.current/fstab
>
> That's from the ln you mentioned in your first message. Instead of doing
> ln to copy configs, use the newbtconf utility to create a new config by
> copying an old one.
>
> 								David
>