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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 01:17:05 +0100
From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues 
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In message <20030518235412.94908.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>, Bsd Neophyte w
rites:
>mknod: ad4: Read-only file system
>/sbin/mknod ad4
>
>this happens about 5 times starting with ad4 and ending with ad4s4.  how
>can i resolve this?

Try the following MFS trick:

	mount_mfs -T fd1440 none /mnt
	cd /mnt
	sh /dev/MAKEDEV ad4s1a
	mount -u /mnt/ad4s1a /
	cd /dev
	sh MAKEDEV ad4s1a

The usual way of getting out of this situation is to use a fixit
CD/floppy to create the device nodes, but the above should work
without the need for that.

Ian