> 
> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, El JoPe Magnifico wrote:
> >   When you first boot into NetBSD, it will automatically drop you into
> >   single-user mode with the root filesystem mounted read-write. [...]
> >                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> At the time I was doing this, I couldn't remember the syntax used by 
> mount and fsck. Now that I've had a chance to print a copy of their man
> pages to keep handy, I'll take another whack at it.  (If at first you 
> don't succeed... =)  Umm, and I just thought of something: Would the
> single-user boot option cause it to go read-only instead of what the
> INSTALL doc indicates?  Dunno why I had that clicked, but I think I did.
> Apologies if I just answered my own question...

Yes it would. The part of the install docs you're refering to are talking
about what happens about 1/2 way through boot - the startup scripts look
to see if /etc/rc.conf has been set up, and halt if not. It's so that
a freshly-installed but not configured machine doesn't come up as a router
and become a security breach.

The "single-user" boot checkbox dumps you into single user VERY early.
When things are still r/o. :-)

Take care,

Bill