At 8:02 AM -0500 9/29/00, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Lee Reynolds wrote:
>
> > I've been able to make use of my zip drive, creating a
> > ffs filesystem on it which I now have mounted as /usr.
> >  I then installed comp.tgz.  Gcc works, but make fails
> > with the message "no system rules (sys.mk)."  Not sure
> > what that is about yet.  I probably need to install
> > another package
>
>/usr/share/mk/sys.mk is in the base set. You have a /usr
>that's otherwise populated?

I'll bet he created the ffs /usr on the zip *after* he installed the 
base set.  That means there is stuff in /usr that gets masked when 
the mount is done.

Not good.  Needs fixing.

Guessing, from memory, Lee needs to do:

cd /
tar zxvpf /path/to/base.tgz /usr
umount /usr
rm -rf /usr/*
mount /usr

Also he should repeat the tar line for each set that was loaded 
before he had the zip mounted.


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