Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 08:37:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> To: doug@footech.com, jason@washington.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contingency Floppy Message-ID: <199809011337.IAA27196@plains.NoDak.edu>
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> how I can mount the /var > and /usr file systems on /var and /usr (respectively) of the > floppy. The first problem is that I don't have the right drivers > available (wd0s2e for /var and wd0s2f for /usr). Secondly, I'm > a bit concerned about covering up (with the mount) what's already > available in the /var and /usr directories on the floppy. use the /var and /usr on the hard drive... on fixit disk: # mount /dev/wd0s2a /mnt # mount /mnt/dev/wd0s2e /mnt/var # mount /mnt/dev/wd0s2f /mnt/usr if a filesystem corruption blew away one of these special device names, # cd /mnt/dev # MAKEDEV <INSERT_WHAT_NEEDS_TO_BE_MADE> there are times you need applications that are not on the fixit disk, use the executables on the hardrive: PATH=$PATH:/mnt/bin:/mnt/sbin:/mnt/usr/bin:/mnt/usr/sbin with shared libraries and all, you may need to manually initialize the shared library cache: # ldconfig /usr/lib /mnt/usr/lib /mnt/usr/lib/compat /mnt/usr/X11R6/lib ... still rarely, you will need to now make the hard drive the "root". since everything is mounted normally, you can run `chroot'. --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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