Subject: Re: Can't write fstab
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/25/1997 13:00:05
Rick GC wrote:
> 
> I have loaded Netbsd 1.1A into my uVax3600 but am unable to mount the
> miniroot with write access.  The command I am using here is "# mount -u
> /dev/ra0b /".  The system comes back with "# ffs: /dev/ra0b on /: specified
> device does not match mounted device". I can not run "ed" until I get write
> access here, does anyone know why I cannot?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick GC

Not having a text editor is no big deal.  You can just use cat to create
a file, such as:

cat > /mnt/etc/fstab
[your fstab is typed here]
[now send EOF (^D)]

If you really, really *need* a text editor to create a file during
installation, you can use one on another system and then send the result
over the serial port.

Be creative.

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