Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:12:35 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: kennon ward <kennonward@netgazers.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: total newbee questions Message-ID: <20040324171235.GB25716@archangel.daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <000a01c41159$505ab560$6400a8c0@laptop> References: <000a01c41159$505ab560$6400a8c0@laptop>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:34:36AM -0400, kennon ward wrote: > To All; > > I just created the disk for FreeBSD and got my other laptop to boot up >under FreeBSD. I need some help in accessing the hard drive and the cdrom. I >tried to create a directory for the CDROM and the hdd1. Then tried to mount >using those directories. It did not access my hard drive or the cdrom. >The question is what do I need to do to gain access to these two drives? > > Also does anyone out there have the source code and makefile for vi? >That is the editor I have used on other Unix systems. You may have guessed that I was not a root super user :-) > Assuming you get your hard drive situation fixed up, you shouldn't need anything else to run vi(1). It's installed by default in /usr/bin, so my guess is that if you get your /usr partition available to the system, you'll be fine. If all you've got available is /, then I feel your pain, for ed(1) and red(1) are somewhat "like kicking dead whales down the beach" compared to something more modern... :-) Like someone else wrote, send us the output of "mount" and a description of how you're attempting to mount your filesystems, the relevant parts of your dmesg, etc. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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