Subject: Re: 1.5.1 miniroot broken?
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 07/19/2001 08:54:45
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:21:38PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Gunther Nikl writes:
> [...] 
> >   I had this problem with 1.5. I guess the problem is the way the miniroot
> >   checks whether / is already mounted rw. The install script checks if
> >   a stamp file exists. If it exists it assumes / is already writeable BUT
> >   the stamp file was created in an earlier install attempt.
> 
>  I'm afraid this is not the case. How could there be an install file from
>  an earlier attempt if I have just done a fresh miniroot install under
>  AmigaOS?

   During installation of 1.5 I had a failure because of a read-only /. It
   wasn't clear to me that the installation failed already during the first
   attempt.

> >   Note: Its probably enough to mount / rw and start the script.
> 
>  How?

  mount / ?

  You can check the installation script to see how the script does it.

  Gunther