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Re: Fedora 20 network install

From Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Fedora 20 network install
Date 2014-10-08 20:28 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <m146q9$221$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>    Well I finally figured out the installer with 20 and I am up to the 
> times :) But the thing is when I boot in single mode and try to unmount the 
> root filesystem because I want to run e2fsck, I can't mount in RO mode. 
> umount /dev/sdX worked before with my F17 and the root remounted itself in 
> RO mode. I can't get this to happen now. Even when in single user mode.
> 
> Bill

You can't unmount the running root fs, where would mount come from,
not to mention /dev?

You need to *remount* the root fs ro; man mount, look for the remount
option:
 mount -o remount,ro /dev/foo /

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Fedora 20 network install "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-08 14:57 -0400
  Re: Fedora 20 network install Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-10-08 20:28 +0000
    Re: Fedora 20 network install "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-08 16:44 -0400
  Re: Fedora 20 network install "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2014-10-08 18:57 -0400
    Re: Fedora 20 network install "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-08 20:47 -0400
      Re: Fedora 20 network install "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2014-10-09 08:29 -0400
        Re: Fedora 20 network install "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-10 17:08 -0400

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