Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:55:29 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: fixit Message-ID: <20040106223548.X89072@rocket.alienwebshop.com> In-Reply-To: <16376.63200.557751.495726@guru.mired.org> References: <20040104181025.B21865@rocket.alienwebshop.com> <16376.63200.557751.495726@guru.mired.org>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20040104181025.B21865@rocket.alienwebshop.com>, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> typed: > > I saw your post about the lack of documentation for "fixit" and > > wondered if you may be an expert or seasoned user on the topic? Thank > > you for any info you have! > Fixit disks aren' really a problem solution so much as a place to > stand to solve problems. They boot you to a running system, either on Mike, I like how you say that - "a place to stand." It's a good lead-in for my question: The problem is this... the fixit shell is started and it doesn't really show you WHAT it is technically doing. Is it started in RAM (/ramdisk/) or does it mount the FreeBSD partition on the HDD? Or what. The thing that strikes me as oddest is that "pwd" will tell me the path, beginning with this "/" symbol. But then I can't type "mount" and have the results tell me about the leading slash "/" -- round and round we go, chicken and egg!! > the CD or out of memory for the fixit floppy, and provide tools you > need to repair things. The CD includes manual pages, so all you really > need to know is which tools you need to solve the problem. The floppy > has a very limited set of tools, so you can start by getting a list of > /bin and /sbin on the fixit file system, and reading the manual page > for those tools. The problem is that root on my HDD has to be mounted before I can use /bin or /sbin tools - and isn't mount /sbin/mount ??? I am hopelessly lost and all tied up in this quandry -- all I need to be able to do is mount root and copy a file (ld-elf.so.1) to /usr/libexec/ because it is missing. > If you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. Any other suggested work-arounds?? I have been booting to (and leaving running) a Knoppix Debian Linux CD-R for weeks, I want to click my heels and say there is no place like home... > <mike > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. PS. I hope you use monster.com and dice.com and hotjobs.com :) just recommendations!! Oh and www.elance.com -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com
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