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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:34:25 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
To:        doug@footech.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Contingency Floppy
Message-ID:  <199809012134.QAA22075@plains.NoDak.edu>

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>  >on fixit disk:
>
>  ># mount /dev/wd0s2a /mnt
>
>  BUT, that's the problem.  wd0s2a does not exist on the fixit disk
>  in either /dev or /mnt2/dev.  I agree, once one gets the hard disk
>  mounted that opens many avenues.  I'm sure I must be missing
>  something.  I appologize for being so dense.

sorry. do this to the fixit disk:

# cd /dev
# mknod wd0s2a b 0 0x00030000

( I do not have a fixit disk handy, so I can't look and see, but if the
  fixit disk has the file /etc/MAKEDEV, then all you have to do is:
  # MAKEDEV  wd0s2a
  and it will issue the above command for you. )

--mark.

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