10.6.8 to Mavericks FireWire fail, need write lock off

It's MacBook Pro, late 2007, I think. It installed with the App Store. The computer has known FireWire issues, so the IOFireWire* extension were deleted, and it has worked fine this way since FireWire issues would cause a hang (bad FireWire hardware). The installation of Mavericks was targeted to a USB flash drive however, the installation has tainted the hard disk of the MBP now. Booting in single user mode, I wish to delete the /System/Library/Extensions/IOFireWire* extensions from the install disk that Mavericks has created on the hard disk, so it can proceed with the boot and complete onto the flash drive. However, the disk is write locked. How can I get to write to this partition now to delete these extensions and then regain the original Snow Leopard that is actually on the MBP?

Sorry I forgot to say that I'm booting into single user mode to try to delete the extensions, and that's where I run into the write lock issue. I have already issued the mount -uw / command, but it still has a write-lock issue, and I don't know how this works with Mac OS X.

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