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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:19:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com>
To:        marki@ihug.co.nz (Mark Ibell)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.6 Help
Message-ID:  <199803282019.MAA04532.gramarye.wrsomsky@halcyon.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601bd596e$00c49600$0201a8c0@evileye.rf.org> from Mark Ibell at "Mar 27, 98 10:49:17 pm"

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>     I've just CVsup'd to 2.2.6 Release and thought I might try updating
> /etc & /dev as well as doing a standard make world. Oops... I have
> FreeBSD on the second partition (wd0s2) but made the entries for wd0s1
> instead. By that I mean wd0s1a ... wd0s1h. Now only the root
> partition mounts, and in read only mode so I can't make the proper
> /dev entries. So am I like totally f####d or what?

I did something similar just last week or so.  I don't remember the details,
but what I ended up doing was booting off of the distribution
cdrom or floppy, going into "fixit" mode, and mounting the
"live filesystem" cd to have a functional system without using
the hard disk at all.  Then I fsck/mounted the root partition
off the hard disk on /mnt, and was then able to go into /dev of
that disk (now mounted on /mnt/dev) and run the needed MAKEDEV...

Hope this helps.

________________________________________________________________________
William R. Somsky                                   wrsomsky@halcyon.com
Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist           http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky

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