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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:41:13PM +0530, Venkatesh Ramachandran wrote:
>    The following error messages : ERROR : Couldn't open /dev/null
> (Read-only file system)
> 

Sounds like devfs is compiled in, but not mounted.  Can you verify?