From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 11: 3: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF8037B568 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antipode@thpoon.com) Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000422180305.IPS910.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:03:05 -0700 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12j4FF-00041R-00 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:03:05 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 via CVSup and rescuing my system ;-) References: X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: thpoon.com From: Arcady Genkin Date: 22 Apr 2000 14:03:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: Nils Holland's message of "Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:26:45 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: <87d7nic8ti.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nils Holland writes: > Now, if I wanted to get 4.0-STABLE, is all I have to do running > CVSup and getting RELENG_4 or is there more to do in order to get from > 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-STABLE? Yes. > Second question: I have messed up a system! In /etc/fstab I have set a > wrong root file system, and I noticed it after I had already > rebooted. Now, how can I create a floppy disk on a working machine with > which I can boot the other machine, so that I can mount the appropriate > partition and edit /etc/fstab. Or, as an alternative, is there some > argument I can set on the *bad* machine while it boots in order to specify > a root-fs different from the one specifies in its /etc/fstab? You can use the FreeBSD installation disks to boot the machine, then switch to another virtual console, mount the partition which contains /etc, edit the fstab, and then reboot. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message