Hmmm... I hate to reply to mysolf, but...

I tried mounting hda2 as /usr/local, but when I do, it doesn't appear that it really gets mounted. I thought that that might be because the root filesystem is automatically mounted ro, so by the time hda2 gets around to being mounted, /usr is already locked up tight, and, even though hda2 gets mounted, /usr/local never gets updated, so is always an empty directory. Next thought was to change /etc/fstab to mount / as "default,rw", but that doesn't appear to work, either -- the root filesystem is mounted ro matter what the contents of /etc/fstab. (Now I can't seem to get *anything* to mount! )

Is this something that could be fixed by hijack? Am I missing a clue to how mounts work?