Hi Russel, It looks like /mnt is mounted read only. If this is changed, it should work.
HTH, Eric Buchanan El Jue 09 Feb 2006 05:13 PM, Russell Fulton escribis: > I am trying to generate a new release incorporating the two recent > patches that I can then install on a number of other machines. > > I have one system with all the sources and have successfully built and > installed the new kernel. Following the instruction in man release I am > now trying to generate something that I can install on other systems. > > I don't really care about the floppy or CD images since I intend to > upgrade most of the systems remotely -- i.e. I am primarily interested > in the .tgz files and the new kernel. > > when I did > > cd /usr/src/etc && nice make release > > It ground away for at least half an hour and then make terminated: > TOPDIR=/usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdiskA/.. > CURDIR=/usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdiskA > OBJDIR=/usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdiskA/obj REV=38 TARGDIR=/mnt > UTILS=/usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdiskA/../../miniroot sh > /usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdiskA/../../miniroot/runlist.sh > /usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdiskA/../common/list > COPY ${OBJDIR}/instbin instbin > cp: /mnt/instbin: Read-only file system > *** Error code 1 > > [hmmmm... some wrapping of lines above ] > > any idea what is actually wrong? > > Cheers, Russell