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Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues 
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--- Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> Try the following MFS trick:
> 
> 	mount_mfs -T fd1440 none /mnt
> 	cd /mnt
> 	sh /dev/MAKEDEV ad4s1a

was able to do these 3 w/o any issues.

> 	mount -u /mnt/ad4s1a /

however, it fell appart here.  this is the error message i received:

WARNING: R/W mount of / denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
mount: /mnt/ad4s1a: Operation not permitted

> 	cd /dev
> 	sh MAKEDEV ad4s1a

the same error appears as before:

mknod: ad4s1a: Read-only file system
/sbin/mknod ad4s1

> 
> 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.

i have to say this was extremely helpful.  i was able to mount /dev/ad4s1e
under /usr.

however, i'm still stuck.  i was hoping i'd be able to create the device
nodes and then change the values under /etc/fstab so that things would
work without any issues.  but i'm still having a problem with sorting out
the device nodes.

any other advice on this one?

thanks again for this pretty sweet trick. :)

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