Thanks for your help Paul,

I've since found a fix, for some reason it wanted me to run fsck -f even
though it had run fsck when I first booted it.

after it had been re-run the root file system would mount fine.

thanks
bernie

>Thanks for your prompt reply Paul,
>        I seem to have not clarified myself properly.
>
>I've read many readme's and followed the instructions as best i could.
>I'm reasonably well versed in unix (SunOS, Linux, HPUX) but not NetBSD it
>seems.
>
>I've booted Single user and then exited still mounts read only
>I've tried /sbin/mount -u /. /sbin/mount -a /sbin/mount -u -t ufs /
>and still nothing. Hummm >:)
>
>Thanks in advance
>bernie
>
>>As indicate in the FAQ, the root file system is mounted read-only when
>>you boot single-user.  Booting multi-user remounts the file system for
>>read-write, as well as mounting other file systems, if any.
>>
>>Please check the FAQ first!  :)
>>
>>On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Bernard Davison wrote:
>>
>>> HI all,
>>>         I've just installed NetBSD 1.2 onto a IIci 4 Mb RAM and it boots
>>> all right but the root file system only ever mounts 'read only' I've also
>>> tried to boot from a zip disk with the same results.
>>>
>>> I cannot find anywhere that I can change this in the booter app.
>>> It dos it in single user mode to.

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