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Date: 	Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:15:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: "Jay L. West" <jlwest@tseinc.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.1R to stable supping assistance
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On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Jay L. West wrote:

> We installed 2.1-Release (Developer package) from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. I
> was trying to upgrade from that to stable but have the following questions....
> 
> I did a sup -v stable-supfile. All appeared to go well (that sure took a
> long time time to run though <grin>).
> 
> I boot to single user mode (-s at the boot prompt) and then I cd /usr/src.
> When I do a make world I get a string of messages about '... missing:
> ./share/examples/cvs/examples (not created: read-only file system). It
> appears the make world is trying to run on a read-only filesystem. What do I
> do to fix this?

  When you boot single user, all filesystems are mounted read-only.  
Solution:  don't boot single user, because make world doesn't require it.

> Next, is anything required after the make world? Do I need to make any
> manual changes to files in /etc or something?

  "make install"

  Not really.  The 2.1 /etc/ set should suffice.

Tom