From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 23:41:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E63153A0 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allenc@mindsieve.com) Received: from spamer_death (user-38ld26q.dsl.mindspring.com [209.86.136.218]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA14260; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:41:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000111024132.007ccca0@mindsieve.com> X-Sender: allenc@mindsieve.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:41:32 -0500 To: R Joseph Wright From: Allen Cleveland Subject: Re: single user mode? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <387ACCF8.D430B322@nwlink.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000110173243.0081e290@mindsieve.com> <3.0.5.32.20000110233539.00820100@mindsieve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:26 PM 1/10/00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > >> If by rescue floppies you mean the images I have in the /floppies directory >> of the cd I burned, then yes. However, after doing so ( and making a fixit >> floppy ) 'mount' shows information about the floppy, but gives me 'command >> not found' otherwise ( ie: with args ). Typing '/sbin/mount /dev/da0s1a >> /mnt' gives me 'mount: command not found' . >> >> I could install fresh from the iso I burned, but I'd rather leave that as a >> last resort. Any other ideas? > >Hmmm...I've done this before. I'm sure it was /sbin/mount that worked >for me. However, you may need to pass an argument such as "/sbin/mount >-t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt". Booting with floppies (boot -s), then going to the fixit disk: Fixit# /sbin/mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt /sbin/mount: not found Fixit# mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt usage: mount [-dfpruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | external_type] special node mount [-adfpruvw] [-t ufs | external_type] mount [-dfpruvw] special | node This time I'm looking at the screen, and not relying on my memory for the above. When fixit starts I get a short info screen with the following: " You might want to symlink /mnt/etc/*pwd.db and /mnt/etc/group to /etc after mounting a root filesystem from your disk. tar(1) will not restore all permissions correctly otherwise! Note: you might use the arrow keys to browse throught the command history of this shell. " This leads me to two thoughts: 1. mount could work if I had a man page handy (yes, I'm looking for online man pages now... url, anyone?) 2. I wonder where the command history went (arrows give me bells untill I have typed in at least one command) ? -- Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda Hate spam? Try SpamCop: http://spamcop.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message