From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 08:42:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10463 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10317 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA22042; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:33:25 GMT (envelope-from kuku) Message-ID: <19980218153325.45114@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:33:25 +0000 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Nadav Eiron Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mounting the live FS CD References: <199802181420.OAA21800@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <34EAF03C.5503@barcode.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <34EAF03C.5503@barcode.co.il>; from Nadav Eiron on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 04:29:16PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 04:29:16PM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote: > Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > I booted the live FS CD of 2.2.5R in order to fix a problem (resp. > > access some partittion to make a backup and then reinstall the system). > > > > Since the root_device is mounted read-only I see no way to > > make it read/writable (mount -u /dev/wd0a / or somethingf > > doesn't seem to work). > > Sure, because there's something else mounted there. If what you want to > do is mount *your* regular root filesystem read/write, simply mount it > in another directory, like so: > > mount /dev/wd0s1a /mnt Yep. Thanks. Had a blackout this morning. For some reason it didn't seem to work right away the first time I tried. Maybe I was using the wron device or what. I found that /tmp is writable though and the presence of the doc.tmp there seems to be a relict of the sysinstall fired off at CD boot. > > > > > Also I got into an endless loop with the only escape pressing the reset > > button while editing the file /tmp/doc.tmp. BTW, is it an 'accident' > > that this file is there in /tmp? What has it got to do in /tmp on the CD? > > Don't know. > > > > > Or is the root_fs a memory filesystem? Anyway, I'd be grateful for the > > magic command line to make the root FS read/writable with the > > live FS CD mounted in fixit mode. > > > > -- > > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Nadav -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message