From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 18:12: 8 2002 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 B7CC837B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF6243E65 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id GQF37091; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:12:05 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8ACF5D04; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:12:04 -0700 (PDT) To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixit CD paradox: making device nodes In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:34 PDT." <20020810170930466.AAA332@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:12:04 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020811011204.C8ACF5D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Philip J. Koenig" > Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:34 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Every time I try to use the Fixit CD to fix a problem with a disk I > run into the same problem: I can't mount the disk because the device > nodes are missing (ie ad0s1a), but I can't create device nodes > because /dev or /dist/dev (when booting from the fixit CD) is read- > only. You can only mount the root partition on any slice under fixit. I thought the initial message told you about this, but I may be mis-remembering. # mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt will mount the "a" partition at the /mnt point. This assumes that the root partition is the 'a' partition. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message