From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 10: 9:40 2002 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 9108B37B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0462843E6E for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:30 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:34 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Fixit CD paradox: making device nodes Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20020810170930466.AAA332@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> 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 Every time I try to use the Fixit CD to fix a problem with a disk I run into the same problem: I can't mount the disk because the device nodes are missing (ie ad0s1a), but I can't create device nodes because /dev or /dist/dev (when booting from the fixit CD) is read- only. Anyone have a straightforward solution to this problem? Thx, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message