From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 10:31:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE67337B49A for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5861 invoked by uid 100); 25 Mar 2002 18:30:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15519.27846.575833.660197@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:30:30 -0600 To: Dale Morris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Rescue Question In-Reply-To: <3C9F1E42.39037FA5@well.com> References: <3C9F1E42.39037FA5@well.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 In <3C9F1E42.39037FA5@well.com>, Dale Morris typed: > When I try using the rescue disck #2 and going to the fixit prompt I've > tried the following commands unsuccessfully: > mount /usr > mount / > mount /dev/ad0s1a, 1e, 1f, 1g > editing the fstab file.. (of course I can't mount the partition to edit > it) > thanks in advance Try doing it this way: mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt/usr # or whatever /usr /is on etc. instead. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message