> I just installed netbsd on my alpha.  after the install and reboot,
> it comes up in single user mode.  i can cd into /etc but i cannot run
> ed rc.conf
> the error is ed: /tmp/ed.00010a: Read-only file system

> according to the install.html at
> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/netbsd/netbsd-1.4.1/alpha

> If you haven't done any configuration of /etc/rc.conf, the system
> will drop you into single user mode on first reboot with the message
> /etc/rc.conf is not configured. Multiuser boot aborted.
> and with the root filesystem mounted read-write.

It would appear the web page lies. :-(

> how do i change to read-write?

Look for the "root on..." line shortly after the device probe messages.
Let's say it says "root on sd0a...".  Then

# mount /dev/sd0a /

or if that doesn't work, you might try

# mount_ffs -o update /dev/sd0a /

If not even that works, let us know what does happen.....  (Best would
be if you could connect up a serial console to another machine and
capture the output; failing that, at least the "root on..." lines, the
command(s) you tried, and what resulted....)

					der Mouse

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