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>Number:         25929
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Can't use MAKEDEV in fixit mount
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 19 13:40:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Embratel S.A.
>Environment:

	Fixit floppy mount, trying to restore a broken system from backup

>Description:


>How-To-Repeat:

    Boot freebsd from install floppies.
    Fdisk it to use dangerously dedicated mode
    Mount fixit.
    Mount cdrom with backup images
    Run disklabel - Device is not configured

    /dev does not contain all devices needed, so, no disklabel, no restore

>Fix:

	I could create devices on the fly with MAKEDEV, IIF
	- There is a symlink from /dev/MAKEDEV (mfsroot.flp) to
	  /mnt2/dev/MAKEDEV (fixit.flp, maybe cdrom)
	  (Reason: MAKEDEV is recursive and must be run from /dev)
	- There is a symlink from /etc/group (mfsroot.flp) to
	  /mnt2/etc/group (fixit.flp, maybe cdrom)
	  (Reason: MAKEDEV uses group names, not group numbers)

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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