> mount / -o remount,rw > possibly a "mount / -n -o remount,rw" is needed, because without it mount will try to write a /etc/mtab to the ro filesystem and of course fail to do so. i don't know, if the mount shipped with debian behaves like that - the one from suse does. :-(
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