On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: : > Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root : > read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition? : : The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have entered : single mode BEFORE trying that! I guess it's just one typical case of the famous : 'DOS/Win former user syndome'... ;-) : : BTW... how do I get into single user mode? ;-?
`shutdown now' as root should do it! `shutdown -h now' halts the machine, and `shutdown -r now' reboots it. Note that you can change "now" to a time and do scheduled shutdowns ... full details in `man shutdown', of course :) Good luck, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)