Re: [linuxdc-dev]NFS Mounting problem

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Monday 05 Nov 2001 12:01 pm, Stuart Menefy wrote:
> Adrian
>
> One of the options which is passed to the kernel is whether to
> mount the root file system, r/w or read only. This is not passed
> on the command line, but as a separate parameter (the read only flag
> is at offset 0 to the parameter block, the command line offset 256 bytes).
>
> Its normal to write the root file system read only rather then read
> write so that fsck can check it first. Of course this doesn't make
> much sense for a network file system!
>
> I suspect the problem you're having is that full mount tries to maintain
> /etc/mtab, which at this point is on the read only file system. So just
> add the -n option to your mount.
>
> At the moment I'm using:
>   mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/root / -t root
> which appears to work fine.
>
> Stuart
>
>

Thanks for this, it did indeed solve the problem - and explained some of the 
behaviour of the box underbusy box.

Have to register my disappointment at the lacklustre performance of X on the 
Dc though - and there's not much to run either.

Has anybody tried to port vnc by any chance?