From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 11 00:07:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E96106564A for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:07:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from smtp2.mc.surewest.net (qsmtp.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDAA68FC14 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: (qmail 26653 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2009 16:57:12 -0700 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 26622, pid: 26627, t: 2.1609s scanners: regex: 1.1.0 attach: 1.1.0 spam: 3.1.7-deb X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb (2006-10-05) on smtp2.surewest.net. X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=10.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7-deb X-Spam-CMAE-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=lmxGYK2WbggA:10 a=jDt-9pEAAAAA:8 a=u1tqKlWmwjoGQG8Ej4cA:9 a=00eSnV9cGqWE6G6pqsAcjB5kw9YA:4 Received: from unknown (HELO blacklamb.mykitchentable.net) (69.62.230.77) by smtp2 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2009 16:57:10 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.3]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2EB79165849; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:07:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mykitchentable.net; s=default; t=1247270869; bh=4b9TpJ0Y5/n1ZjcTI9HKehR0LPWiVPMMs93i2+8B8Vk=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=lNAuvcCnWw/nCc0xSLEMbJOi15rBlZqdj0YXIwBWEEN7kHTP0Ci9hdfDdS0KdawOj odsM/wZAwvAhfsDLQgkydXlCnv2mNHW9blHwUW7vjskbbv5McC29uUBikS4U+5aKge zDdalrzyoV4di0Xaq15f28JYyvSAHasnrulg9+S4= Message-ID: <4A57D7CC.90104@mykitchentable.net> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:07:40 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michel Talon References: <20090704190652.GA44670@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20090704190652.GA44670@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090710-0, 07/10/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FixIt CD Tool Availability - SOLVED X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:07:53 -0000 Michel Talon wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> The command 'gmirror label root ad8a ad6a' does not return an error but >> no device is created in /dev/mirror >> >> The command 'zpool create data raid1z ad14d ad12d ad8d ad6d' gives me >> an error about the ZFS library being unavailable. >> >> Are these tools supposed to work when using the Fix It CD? If not, does >> 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso have these tools? >> > > One can load kernel modules from the fixit cdrom, but as far as i > remember this requires some manipulations. > > What i do is, from the fixit prompt: > chroot /mnt2 > to go to the full system available on the cdrom under /mnt2. But then > required things are missing, so i do further: > mount -t devfs devfs /dev > because access to /dev is frequently required, and for commodity > set -o emacs > (to have shell history and editing) > export PAGER=more > (to be able to access man pages) > After that one has a more or less standard environment. Sometimes one > needs a writable filesystem, for example for accessing internet > (dhclient, resolv.conf, etc.) > mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp > does that. > > It would be nice to have a shell script on the fixit cdrom doing similar > things automatically when one accesses fixit. > > In your case i suspect appropriate kernel modules were not loaded > and commands failed silently. > For the archives, the above works. I don't know what I did wrong the first day I tried. However after walking away for a few days and then starting over, the commands above gave me a functional FixIt environment. Thanks! Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com