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From: jhma@ukc.ac.uk (J.H.M.Aldridge)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Problems in from-scratch install of 4.3BSD-Reno on Microvax
Message-ID: <7819@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 09:15:05 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.011643.13473@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Reply-To: jhma@ukc.ac.uk (J.H.M.Aldridge)
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In article <1991Jun18.011643.13473@comp.vuw.ac.nz> jonathan@beta.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Jonathan Stone) writes:
>
>Subject: Problems in from-scratch install of 4.3BSD-Reno on Microvax
>Problem #5:
>	(Old news.)  The script to extract the root filesystem won't work
>	 on the read-only miniroot filesystem.   It needs to create files
>	in /tmp.

It is possible to "upgrade" a mounted file system from read-only to read-write
using the -u flag to mount.  The appropriate command (on our system) would be
(if I remember correctly) ...

	# mount -u /dev/ra0b /

I believe this is misdocumented somewhere in the installation instructions.

You can then proceed with "normal" MAKEDEV calls, etc...

... OK, so it doesn't make it much easier, but if you haven't got too many
spare partitions lying around ... :-)


--James