Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:59:26 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: "Marc Dodsworth" <marcd@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using fixit floppy/CD-ROM Message-ID: <200107101559.f6AFxQx02987@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:21:03 %2B0930." <001001c10423$690f2050$0210a8c0@dodsworth.com.au>
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Marc muumbled, > Playing around with Windows 2000, I seem to have somehow changed my slice > numbers and as a result FreeBSD no longer finds things where they should be. > da0s2a is now da03a and so fourth (my Windows 2000 partition when from being > slice 0 to slice 4) > What's the best way to get in and edit my /etc/fstab file? My system is > running 4.3 but my CD-ROMs are the 4.0 distribution. > I boot usnig the live filesystem CD and use the fixit CD option I can't > mount my drive - there are only slice entries in /dev but not for partitions > and there is no makedev to create it. I haven't seen an answer here, so I'll swing away. can you boot at all? I managed to bumble my way to single user after drdos trashed my partition table and win98 overwrite the beginning of a partition. vi is on /usr, so I had to use ed. Seriously. Try using fdisk and disklabel from within setup to put the slices where they belong. You can delete one partition within the slices at a time to force the right letters back onto them. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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