Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 02:53:35 -0700 From: "Morgan Stewart" <veenoghu@uvic.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Christoph Sold" <so@i-clue.de> Subject: RE: Mount Question Message-ID: <NDBBLFHCGDAMHAKOLHEFEENPFNAA.veenoghu@uvic.ca> In-Reply-To: <39080A28.4DDBE5A4@i-clue.de>
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It would appear that the problem was I was trying to refer to the drive as /dev/ad0s2a and /dev/wd0s2a. It would appear that FreeBSD 4.0 doesn't like calling FreeBSD 2.2.6 partitions ad or wd. Instead, I have now learned by trial and fsck error that the drive is properly referred to as /dev/rwd0s2a. And it has now successfully mounted. Thanks everyone for your help. Morgan Stewart veenoghu@uvic.ca _____ One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between different machines. And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s. It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming. With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and quickly check that small manual and find out that it's not there. With VMS, no matter what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of documentation -- if you look long enough it's there. That's the difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there. -- Ken Olsen, President of DEC, 1984 _____ Chairperson of the UVic Students' Society <http://www.uvss.uvic.ca/>; Local 44 of the Canadian Federation of Students <http://www.cfs-fcee.ca/>; (250) 721-8370 Work & Fax (250) 472-4379 JOIN The campaign for higher education... www.cfs.bc.ca >-----Original Message----- >From: Christoph Sold [mailto:so@i-clue.de] >Sent: April 27, 2000 2:37 AM >To: Morgan 'Veenoghu' Stewart >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Mount Question > > >Morgan 'Veenoghu' Stewart schrieb: > >> I have recently done a full install of FreeBSD 4.0--RELEASE on a new >> harddrive. >> >> I would like to be able to mount my old 2.2.6 install at the same time as >> my current install but I haven't been able to figure it out. >> >> I'm a relative newby and the mount command seems to be eluding me. >> >> In particular I can't figure out where to mount the device. I know what >> both devices are called but the mount point is escaping me. Both are set >> up to mount at / so only the first drive listed in FSTAB ever gets >> mounted. >> >> What am I missing to be able to mount /dev/ad2s1a to / and the / on >> /dev/ad1s1a to somewhere other than / ?? > >Assuming your fstab reads something like this: > > /dev/ad2s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > >first, > mkdir /oldroot >on /dev/ad2s1a, then change fstab to > /dev/ad1s1a /oldroot ufs rw 1 1 > >Last, > mount /oldroot >to mount your old drive onto the /oldroot mount point. > >Probably you've forgotten to create the mount point for the old >drive first. > >Best regards >-Christoph Sold > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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