On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:43:37PM -0400, Ryan La Riviere wrote:

> the CD.  Well, I couldn't have that happen so I stopped it.  When I got to
> the prompt, I found that just about everything had been moved to /etc.old.
> Fine.  I can deal with that...except that / is mounted as read-only and
> making it read/write requires /etc/fstab to be in /etc.  This is going to be
> fun.
> 
> So I guess, the lesson learned...don't interrupt the upgrade process.
> 
> Back to messing it up (and trying other alternatives for upgrading to 1.6Z).

Mount your root partition rw in an empty directory.  Move etc.old to etc.  
Unmount and reboot.

- alex