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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:55:38 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fixit CD paradox: making device nodes 
Message-ID:  <200208112155.WAA24395@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Kevin Oberman's message of Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:03:24 -0700

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> > What happens if one needs to mount, say, /usr?
> 
> As far as I know, you can't. The theory is that you use fixit only
> when the system is unable to boot which only requires the root
> partition. Once you get root fixed, you can boot it to single user and
> fix something bad on another partition.

Once you have your root fixed, you can mount it and use its /dev to refer
to other devices.

-- Richard

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