Re: [Install trouble]

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:16:38PM +0000, Famille Chauvat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working with an Indy station and the corresponding kernel.
> On the bootp() step, i got a message:
> >>>>>>>
> 
> creating 100k of ramdisk space... done
> mounting /tmp from ramdisk... failed
> 
> I can't recover from this.
> <<<<<<<

Probably this is a kernel with no ramdisk support ?  Ah wait - No - 
You have booted the kernel with a read-only root - Which means - When
mounting /tmp i tries to write /etc/mtab which is read-only - Try
to append "rw" to your prom console boot line

Flo
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