Filesystem mounts in read only

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Filesystem mounts in read only
started by: jerome2

Posted by jerome2 on Aug. 26 2004,02:03

I have to type the command
mount -n -o remount,rw /
Inorder to get the filesystem root to be in read write mode, is there a way to automate this? It happens when I include the diskette backup (otherwise it would star the xserver and I get a black screen).

Posted by AwPhuch on Aug. 26 2004,16:45

You are refering to a HD install correct??

If that is the case modify the /etc/fstab and remove the ro from the command mounting your drive...(I do believe this is how its done)

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by jerome2 on Aug. 27 2004,00:08

ok I will look into that when I boot back to linux

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 27 2004,02:18

Do you have a full-blown hdinstall, or do you have a "frugal install" or a "poorman's install"?

Posted by jerome2 on Aug. 27 2004,02:44

I think its a full hdinstall

I ran the dsl-hdinstall script and stuff and I dont need a boot disk.

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 27 2004,02:56

The reason why I ask is because a frugal or poormans install behaves exactly like a livecd install in the sense that the OS is running from a compressed read-only filesystem. The only difference is that the filesystem is sitting on a hard drive partition instead of inside a CD-R disk.

Posted by jerome2 on Aug. 27 2004,03:26

getting this distro to behave for me is surely time consuming.

I figuer if I could find out how it boots then mabe I could fix it.

Posted by chickenman on Sep. 12 2004,05:53

how do you edit fstab?, i su root and it says i dont have permisson?

Posted by Aiku on Sep. 12 2004,07:24

You don't need to edit fstab, if your system is read-only it is because you are running frugal or poormans. If you don't want that then do a regular hard drive install. Why do you make things hard when it is really so simple.

Posted by len on Sep. 12 2004,22:31

Quote (chickenman @ Sep. 12 2004,01:53)

how do you edit fstab?, i su root and it says i dont have permisson?

i think it's sudo for 1 command, and sudo su to remain as root until logged out.

Posted by chickenman on Sep. 19 2004,08:11

well i have a HDD install, i just ran the "install to hard drive" in the apps>tools menu. I want to run my OTHER HDD as non-read only.

I edited fstab before (very crapply) and it just replaced the "ro"'s when i rebooted. I would also like this HDD to mount on startup if thats possable.

how I edited it crapply goes as so; I opened fstab in scite, edited the file, then saved it into a diffrent directory. Then, as root, copied it over the old fstab file, this seemed to work but theres a better way of doing it i dont know about isnt there?

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 19 2004,17:50

Yeah, just type:

sudo scite

from the command prompt and your scite window will have full root authority.

Even better:

sudo scite /etc/fstab