From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 18:38:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1DF16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:38:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yearning.mcc.ac.uk (yearning.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363FD43D53 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:38:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by yearning.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1C9pWt-0008ib-00; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:38:19 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i8LIcIYu052866; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:38:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i8LIcITJ052864; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:38:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:38:17 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20040921183817.GB52408@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040921180228.GA52408@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200409211823.i8LINIs06293@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200409211823.i8LINIs06293@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I mount slices with no dev entry from fixit floppy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:38:20 -0000 On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:23:17PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: : Do you mean that ad0s1 is not in /dev? That would be the slice. : Or do you mean no ad0s1g - which would be the partition inside the slice? It's the partition that I mean, then. : Also, careful of your use of the word mounted. Nothing should : be mounted on /dev/ad0s1g or there would be problems. But : what you want is the partition at /dev/ad0s1g and you want to : mount that on some mount point such as /mnt or maybe /oldusr if : you can make that dir. Oops, that's what I meant. I need to mount /dev/ad0s1g to /mnt or whatever mountpoint I will use. : How sure are you that your old /usr was in partition /dev/ad0s1g? : Is it possible you are looking in the wrong place? That's what I see when I 'cat /mnt/etc/fstab' with my old drive / mounted on /mnt. : I have not had to use the fixit disks so I am not sure of what all : is included, but I would be surprised if there is no MAKEDEV script : if it is for FreeBSD 4.xxx or older version. In 4.xxx and earlier, : the MAKEDEV script is in /dev. You need to cd to /dev and then : run './MAKEDEV ad0'. NOTE, the './' is necessary because MAKEDEV : will not be in your path. I'll look again, but I only saw a few devices listed, and no script. : Try doing : : cd / : mount /dev/ad0s1g /mnt : cd /mnt : ls I'll try tonight, but I think it complains that ad0s1g doesn't exist. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.