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Topic: Read-only file system, Installing rpm package

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AlainM

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Posted: Feb. 10 2006,12:44

hi everybody,

I downloaded the DSL .iso and burned it on a CD, then i booted on the CD and do the USB-HDD installation (not the frugal one).

After that i booted on my USB drive and all worked fine. I downloaded a .rpm to install it on the system and after doing some manipulation, it worked fine.

For some reason i tried to uninstall and reinstall my .rpm but now the system tells me :

rpm: ./usr/bin/ggw: Read-only file system

I can't intall any rpm anymore, i can't even create any file in this directory.

So i formated my USB drive and started again the procedure (boot on cd and install on USB).

But incredibly it does'nt work, i always get the same message:

rpm: ./usr/bin/ggw: Read-only file system

How can i change the read-only status of the whole system ?

Thank you

Alain.

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 11 2006,21:56

Boot with:

dsl write

badlands
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Posted: Mar. 01 2006,20:45

i have dsl installed on a key drive. what do i have to edit to add dsl write? version 2.2

mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 01 2006,21:32

USB-HDD is a type of frugal install, as far as i know, so most of the filesystem begins read-only.

Your boot options are added to the configuration file of your bootloader, most likely lilo or grub. With lilo, i think it's lilo.conf, and with grub it's menu.lst, which should be somewhere in sda1, or /cdrom (both should be the same device). With lilo you'll need to re-run lilo to update it, if i remember correctly.

You could also run "sudo /etc/init.d/mkwriteable" instead of changing your bootloader's config. This would probably need to be done every time you boot.

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