Is anyone interested in testing a simple patch for this?
	You'll need to be able to build your own miniroot...

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Gunther Nikl wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:10:54PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> >
> >  I can't upgrade from 1.5 to 1.5.1. At several stages during install,
> >  I get a message about files not being created in /tmp because of a
> >  Read-only filesystem.
>
>   I had this problem with 1.5. I guess the problem is the way the miniroot
>   checks whether / is already mounted rw. The install script checks if
>   a stamp file exists. If it exists it assumes / is already writeable BUT
>   the stamp file was created in an earlier install attempt.
>   If you mount / rw, delete the stampfile (its a dot file) and then start
>   the script again it should work fine.
>   Note: Its probably enough to mount / rw and start the script.
>
>   Gunther
>