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OSR5 FAQ

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I need to make a copy of /stand/unix, but the file system is mounted read-only!

Use

 /etc/btmnt -w
 

to re-mount /stand read-write. After you have finished, use

 /etc/btmnt -d
 

to return it to its default state.

It would probably be a good idea to follow a procedure similar to this:

btmnt -w
cd /stand
cp unix unix.good
cd
btmnt -d
 

Unless, of course, "unix" is not known to be a good kernel. As you can have as many copies as will fit, and boot from any of them simply by typing their name at the "Boot:" prompt, it's not a bad idea to have at least one "unix.safe" or "unix.emergency".

Of course you can't fit very many if the /stand filesystem was created at its default size of 15MB. As disks got larger, I'd give /stand a 30MB or larger size just to allow room for other kernels.

This "btmnt" command was used primarily by the SCO kernel linking scripts to update the /stand (SCO's boot fs partition) with a new kernel. Why not just use mount commands? I don't know - maybe because was needed in enough places that they wanted easy syntax.

See Booting OSR5 also. The SCO Kernel Link Failures article might also be of interest.

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