On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 05:37:46PM -0700, Marc Bathgate wrote:
> 
> If I attempt to edit rc.conf, or anything else with that matter, I am
> confronted w/this error:
> 
> ed: /tmp/ed.00012a: Read-only file system

Sounds like / is mounted read-only.  Try doing a "mount -o rw /", that
should fix it.

Also, if you want to use vi instead of ed to edit the file, you'll need
to mount the /usr partition as well.


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