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

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:46:57PM -0400, Michael S. Sprague wrote:
> 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%

maybe your out of space on that partition ?
how come it is ro mounted, i never saw something about read-only mounting of one particular partition.

> /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?

when a filesystem is mounted read only, the permissions are of no importance.
how did you mount /mnt/gentoo/boot
did you follow the correct order in the installguide 
do you give special options to mount (style -o ro)

greetz
stijn

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