In der Mouse's own words (And I ">_") :
>
		[SUP/make (all) straightned out)
 
> 
> > Also, according to the instructions , isn't my /usr mounted Read
> > Only?
> 
> Possibly; check by running mount.  If so, you'll have to remount it
> read/write before installation can possibly work.
>
	Figured. Just wondered if there was "something else" I might
have been "cluefully impaired" about.
> 
> > And, while I'm re-building everything if I decide to do something
> > else, won't my includes be incorrect with the version installed?
> 
> Possibly.  I suspect that most user-land code doesn't care about the
> include files that change the most, fortunately.
>
	Ok, comforting.
> 
> > I guess I really never ran into this since Linux on my PC took an
> > hour or so and I've put 30 into this and only have about 490 .o's in
> > libc. (NOT blaming the OS, just the 3/50 and possibly Linux NFS).
> 
> It took my diskless Sun-3/260 about a week to do a full rebuild
> (everything except the kernel).
>
	OUCH!  Hey, these things happen.  I'm prepared.  If I get more
serious about it maybe I'll push the Linux guys for a Sun3 port
(They already do Amiga and Mac (And Atari?)) and run NetBSD on the
PC as my main system. (I have a Class C Lan in my house. Pretty bad,
huh?)
> 
> >> 			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
> > 						 ^^^^^^MUSIC to my ears.
> 
> Oh dear, you've been afflicted with MUSIC?  My sympathies. 
>
	While I was in college in 84/85, yea.  My *FIRST* exposure
to the big iron at Marist.
>
> (For those
> who find this hopelessly cryptic, MUSIC is an OS put out by the McGill
> Computing Centre.  It is an acronym for, I think, <M>cGill <U>niversity
> <S>ystem for <I>nteractive <C>omputing;
>
	Exactly correct, I even have all my manuals... Put them on my
bookshelf last weekend!
>
> their idea of interactive seems
> to be a line editor on a 300-baud teletype.  In its day it may have
> been a good system, but as far as I can tell it hasn't evolved with the
> rest of the world over the intervening years, so by now it's pretty
> painfully out-of-date.)
>
	Dunno, but I always remember it.... 8-)

			Scott