On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:21:20PM +0200, Richard PLOIX wrote:
> hello,
> I had an i386 NetBSD installation in 1.4.2.
> I mad an upgrading from the cdrom, during whitch
> i have an error message : cannot copy file 
> /usr/xxx... because the file system /usr is full.
> the problem is that now i boot in 1.5 with the
> read only mode.
> if i do a mount -u /usr, the system respond that 
> it can't find /etc/fstab.
> I see the /etc directory, but i can't copy it to the new /etc
> because the file system is read only.

Once booted to single user:
mount -u /dev/wd0a / (or sd0a if scsi)
rm -rf /etc
mv /etc.old /etc
mount /usr
free some space in /usr
and now you should be able to do again an upgrade.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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