write permissions for /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Still having problems untarring the entire stage1 tarball. I can see it
untarring what seems to be several hundred files perhaps. I always get the
same exit error at the same place. I believe it may be due to the fact that
/dev/hda1 being the root partition being a read only file system. I say this
because /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot is listed from the "df" command as
FILESYSTEM /dev/hda1 1K-blocks 2084324 USED 208324 AVAILABLE 0 USE% 100%
/mnt/gentoo/boot. I have tried using chmod to change the permissions on this
directory to no avail. I am only told that it is changing the permissions
and then receive the statement that it is a read only filesystem. If this is
so, how am I ever going to write anything into the boot partition?

Michael S. Sprague
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Registered Linux User: 290220