Getting closer, thanks. I've mounted the slice with <font face="courier new, monospace">mount -o rw /dev/da0s1a /mnt</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">. However, when I chroot into /mnt passwd isn't found and editing the /etc/master.passwd file still gives a read-only error.</font><div>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font>-Mathew<br><br>"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama<div><br></div><div>"<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and neither am I." - Me</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kurin@delete.org" target="_blank">kurin@delete.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:50:23PM -0400, Mathew Snyder wrote:<br>
> I've booted to installation media and selected the single-user mode. I've<br>
> got the shell but when I attempt to follow the steps I've found on various<br>
> sites it doesn't work. Generally, they all follow the same procedure:<br>
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> mount -a (or mount -u /)<br>
> passwd<br>
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</div>This only works if the entries are in fstab, which obviously they won't<br>
be if you're booting from a CD.<br>
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Mount them manually (e.g. `mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt`) and then chroot into<br>
/mnt to run `passwd`.<br>
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