From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 16:12:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4691537B400 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GY2WG401.F7M; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 01:12:04 +0200 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 01:13:00 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <3235210179.20020622011300@dds.nl> To: mingo lu Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: fixit??? In-Reply-To: <20020621174503.40736.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020621174503.40736.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear mingo, Friday, June 21, 2002, 7:45:03 PM, you wrote: ml> Hi; ml> I messed up my system and am trying to use "fixit.flp" to fix the problem. so I booted up and got into fixit mode. what is next? how can I mount the "/" of the hard drive to /mnt? ml> tia ml> _mingo ml> --------------------------------- ml> Do You Yahoo!? ml> Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup I'm assuming you have a IDE hardisk and thus use the ata driver. This is how your /etc/fstab could look: /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad1s1f /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad1s1g /tmp ufs rw,nodev,nosuid 2 2 In this case the following will give your / back. The editing util vi is located somewhere in /usr/local so mounting /usr will be usefull to. mount /dev/ad0s1a / cat /etc/fstab mount /dev/ad0s1e /usr -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook The mailing lists http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list How to get best results from the FreeBSD- questions mailing list http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Alternative: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message