On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Josh Hope wrote:

> Well, I now know who that god of mine is: Murphy.
>
> I booted, then tried to 'vi', but I get an error: Read-only file system.
> I tried mkdir, same thing.

that's not the drive.  That's the way it's mounted.

Type mount -u /
or   mount -a (this mounts everything in fstab)


> Great, so is this the result of me booting off of an EZ? What about the
> guy who said he compiles off an EZ? Certainly he must be able to write to
> it to compile...

Well, I think he said on a 486, which probably uses a different SCSI
driver -- maybe not even SCSI, perhaps IDE.  However, as I understand it,
the sbc generic will work better (not necessarily flawlessly, of course)
on the EZs than the NCRSCSI.  "Your Mileage May Vary" (R) *

Good Luck,

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