On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, 9000 VAX wrote:

> I tried to compile kernel with the newly installed NetBSD/vax 1.6.1 on
> a VAX3900. The process stopped and complained that it could not create
> files in /tmp directory. I am root in the single user mode. I tried to
> "chmod" the /tmp directory but failed. Could somebody
> let me know how to solve the problem? Thanks.

At boot, / is mounted read-only. You can easily check this by just giving 
the "mount" command.

The remedy is of course to mount the root partition read/write.
Assuming it was a SCSI disk, as unit 0, the command would be:
mount /dev/sd0a /

 	Johnny

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