Well, if you booted in single-user mode, none of your file systems will 
get mounted automatically.  You need to do a "mount -u /" command to 
"update" the mount status of the root fs to whatever /etc/fstab says it 
should be, and/or a "mount -a" to mount "all" file systems listed in the 
file.

If you boot multi-user, these steps get done automatically for you as 
part of executing the startup script /etc/rc.

On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Josh Hope wrote:

> >You have to mount your file systems "rw" for read-write instead of "ro" 
> >for read only. you can do it by hand for the root fs the first time, then 
> >edit your /etc/fstab to make it always mount your partitions "rw."
> 
> About my read-only problem:
> 
> Here is my /etc/fstab file:
> 
> /dev/sd1a   /   ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/sd1b   none   swap   sw 0 0
> kern      /kern   kernfs  rw 0 0
> proc      /proc   procfs  rw 0 0
> 
> It looks read and write to me. (The sd1a is correct, at least that's what 
> the installer mounts.)
> 
> Josh Hope
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