Locked out of system

From: Gary L. Roach (garyroach_at_verizon.net)
Date: 07/27/04

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    Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them.

    I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the
    entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes
    the hard drive partitions read only.

    There is no text editor available to edit fstab - assuming that I can write
    to the file. How do I get out of this mess.

    System Pentium III dual processors
            Linux 2.4.20
            Woody 3.0
            3 1/2 floppy drive
            SCSI CDROM (No drivers loaded until system boots)
            
    Any help will be appreciated

    Gary R 

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