Hi gang,
Thanks for all the helpful feedback. Many responses of the form:
1) mount -u /
2) cd /etc
3) vi fstab
were proffered. Unfortunately, this cannot work, since the mount
command refers to the broken fstab file.
Allan Simeone, Steve Butcher, and as usual, Tom Blinn, came through
with the appropriate answer, as follows:
1) cd /dev
2) ./MAKEDEV rz?? (your real root disk)
3) cd /etc/fdmns
4) mkdir root_domain (if that was your root domain name)
5) cd root_domain
6) ln -s /dev/rz?? rz?? (typically rz0a)
7) mount -t advfs root_domain#root /mnt
8) cd /mnt/etc
9) vi fstab
10) shutdown and reboot
The gist of the problem was my misperception that the /etc file system
was read-only. While I had checked this of course, what I missed was
critical. Several entries in the CD-booted /etc directory are links to
a memory file system, including /etc/fdmns, /etc/hosts, and /etc/yp,
making it possible to create the symbolic links required to remount the
AdvFS file system.
Thanks again to everyone who responded.
Seth
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 17:30:53 NZDT