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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:26:23 -0700
To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>,
	"David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
From: Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>
Subject: Re: devfs
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At 11:17 AM 8/20/2001 -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
>
>>The only problem is devfs is mounted and I can't seem to get around
>>that.
>
>I haven't had much time lately to fool with my -CURRENT box but
>it seems that booting singleuser oughta help?
>
>-- 
>"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.  There might be a
>law against it by that time."   -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001
>
>Brandon D. Valentine <bandix at looksharp.net>
>
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I couldn't do this from single user. I forget the error somthing about moving a mount point.
What worked for me was
to boot off the CDROM and go into the fixit mode then
mount the / partition on /mnt. cd /mnt/dev/
rm -r *

Manfred


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