Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:03:15 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FixIt CD Tool Availability Message-ID: <4A520423.3040602@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20090704190652.GA44670@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20090704190652.GA44670@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Michel Talon wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> The command 'gmirror label root ad8a ad6a' does not return an error but >> no device is created in /dev/mirror >> >> The command 'zpool create data raid1z ad14d ad12d ad8d ad6d' gives me >> an error about the ZFS library being unavailable. >> >> Are these tools supposed to work when using the Fix It CD? If not, does >> 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso have these tools? >> > > One can load kernel modules from the fixit cdrom, but as far as i > remember this requires some manipulations. > > What i do is, from the fixit prompt: > chroot /mnt2 > to go to the full system available on the cdrom under /mnt2. But then > required things are missing, so i do further: > mount -t devfs devfs /dev > because access to /dev is frequently required, and for commodity > set -o emacs > (to have shell history and editing) > export PAGER=more > (to be able to access man pages) > After that one has a more or less standard environment. Sometimes one > needs a writable filesystem, for example for accessing internet > (dhclient, resolv.conf, etc.) > mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp > does that. > Thank you for your reply. I performed the steps you suggested above. However I am still stuck. After the above, my chrooted /dev did not have any device nodes so I must have done something wrong. I have also tried booting the DVD but the issues are the same. I guess the guide at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/installation.html is missing something required for 7.2. > It would be nice to have a shell script on the fixit cdrom doing similar > things automatically when one accesses fixit. > > In your case i suspect appropriate kernel modules were not loaded > and commands failed silently. > I have performed several Gentoo Linux installtions from its LiveCD so I understand the concept of running a system from CD to prepare hard drives and install. However I am missing some piece to make FreeBSDs LiveCD a functional environment. I'm getting frustrated... :) Thanks again for your help, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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