From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 11:12:12 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 A41AC37B41B for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6838 invoked by uid 100); 25 Mar 2002 19:08:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15519.30142.55413.485440@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:08:46 -0600 To: Dale Morris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Rescue Question In-Reply-To: <3C9F390C.EA186910@well.com> References: <3C9F1E42.39037FA5@well.com> <15519.27846.575833.660197@guru.mired.org> <3C9F390C.EA186910@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 <3C9F390C.EA186910@well.com>, Dale Morris typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > 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. > Mike, when I do it this way I get the following: > mount: /dev/ad0s1a (or e,f,g) : No such file or directory > Fixit# > > I'm thinking it is possible that I don't have an fstab file in /etc , and > therefore would I be unable to mount partitions? Or maybe another problem? That means the device fiels don't exist. You can make them with /dev/MAKEDEV if you can get a writeable directory. > What led me to this was being unable to mount the floppy with > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy command. Yet if I remember correctly the bsd > floppy was automounted.. You don't remember correctly, as it isn't. 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