From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 2: 0:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1EA537B401 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E73643E77 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:00:27 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:00:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Fixit CD paradox: making device nodes Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: "Kevin Oberman" References: Your message of "Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:34 PDT." <20020810170930466.AAA332@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-reply-to: <20020811011204.C8ACF5D04@ptavv.es.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20020811090027768.AAA344@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Aug 2002 at 18:12, Kevin Oberman boldly uttered: > > From: "Philip J. Koenig" > > Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:34 -0700 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Every time I try to use the Fixit CD to fix a problem with a disk I > > run into the same problem: I can't mount the disk because the device > > nodes are missing (ie ad0s1a), but I can't create device nodes > > because /dev or /dist/dev (when booting from the fixit CD) is read- > > only. > > You can only mount the root partition on any slice under fixit. I > thought the initial message told you about this, but I may be > mis-remembering. > > # mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt > > will mount the "a" partition at the /mnt point. This assumes that the > root partition is the 'a' partition. OK, so in this case is ad0s1 essentially an alias for "ad0s1a"? If so, I didn't realize that and thanks for the tip. (I always thought ad0s1c was the equivalent to ad0s1) What happens if one needs to mount, say, /usr? Thx, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message