From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 08:26:30 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA04254 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 08:26:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cei.net (root@mail.cei.net [204.117.117.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA04249 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 08:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.dancooks.com (smtp.dancooks.com [204.180.122.4]) by mail.cei.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA15670 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:26:26 -0600 Received: from T2/SpoolDir by smtp.dancooks.com (Mercury 1.12); Mon, 30 Dec 96 10:26:58 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by T2 (Mercury 1.30); 30 Dec 96 10:26:48 -0600 From: "Jason Hudgins" Organization: Dan Cook's Inc. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:26:45 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: disklabel woes... Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <475C51506E@smtp.dancooks.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In my effort to simulate a total system crash and restoration I have one little problemo. This occurs using a customized fixit floppy... disklabel -R -B -b /mnt2/usr/mdec/wdboot -s /mnt2/usr/mdec/bootwd wd0s1a /mnt2/stand/wd0s1alabel.asc wd21600 ^^^^^ This section is my problem...there is no wd0s1a on the /dev MFS filesystem using the fixit floppy...I have the device in /mnt2/dev/ but disklabel does not like it when I provide any sort of path name. I have tried symlinking the devices to /dev but disklabel does not see them. Anyone got any ideas about this? Thanks Jason