On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:46, Gene Heskett wrote: <snip> > The few times I've done that, I recall having to remount / read/write before I > could modify anything. But thats been a bit more than a year, probably > closer to 3 since I last had to do that. Thanks for the update! > Gene, It was probably due to getting dumped into an sulogin shell (hence the rc.sysinit not running properly). Of course, rc.sysinit being able to remount "/" rw is a function of a "valid" /etc/fstab and a successful execution of fsck. --Rob