From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 11:00:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA5137B432 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from edd.revealed.net (edd.revealed.net [205.243.76.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84226441E2 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from irdgtom.thompson@edd.revealed.net) Received: (qmail 15091 invoked by uid 1008); 18 Aug 2003 16:39:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO edd.revealed.net) (205.243.76.215) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2003 16:39:23 -0000 From: irdgtom.thompson@edd.revealed.net Sender: irdgtom.thompson@edd.revealed.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:48:15 GMT X-Mailer: DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway 2.6z, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <3f41034f.67f9.0@edd.revealed.net> X-User-Info: 12.163.50.74 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: "Live" CD Mounting file systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: irdgtom.thompson@edd.revealed.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:00:41 -0000 Hello all, I am trying to build a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-i386 based "live" cd and I am having trouble getting the filesystems mounted. The kernel boots but then tells me that it cannot find the root file system. From what I have read it appears that I need to make a memory filesystem to load part of file system on. Does anyone have samples on how to actually accomplish this? Thanks Tom