From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 02:35:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA08736 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (cruella.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA08708 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@criterion.canon.co.uk) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA29925 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:29:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35BD9A56.62F3CE78@csl.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:31:02 +0100 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV on ro wd References: <199807280046.UAA06997@lucy.bedford.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG CyberPeasant wrote: > Adam Nealis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had to change it [fstab] to > > > > /dev/wd0s1a / ufs rw #2.2.6 version > > > > To check the partition is OK, try this > > > > mkdir /mnt/bootdisk > > mount /mnt/bootdisk /dev/wd01s1a > > You meant > mount /dev/wd01s1a /mnt/bootdisk Ouch! So I did. > At this point the user can cd /mnt/bootdisk/dev and do MAKEDEV, I think > MAKEDEV wd01s1a That device should already exist. The pre 2.2.6 /etc/fstab simply used a shorthand notation for same. The reason I state this is because I don't recommend running MAKEDEV unless you have to (Pavlovian conditioning). And maybe that should be ./MAKEDEV wd01s1a (or is it fashionable to have "." in root's path these days ;-) ? Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message