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Date:      Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:35:24 +0100
From:      Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64 <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fixit over netboot/bootp possible ??
Message-ID:  <20100118163524.GN49006@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <1263829815.14794.8.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org>
References:  <1263829815.14794.8.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org>

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As Craig Butler wrote:

> I want an "if all else fails rebuild from backup
> environment"... need to be able to sunlabel the disk... push ufs
> boot partition and rebuild zfs filesystem (zfs receive from backups)

IIRC, the simple shell session you can start in the fixit menu
contains a command mount_nfs.  That way, you should be able to mount a
remote filesystem to get more commands from than are available in that
bare minimum shell.  (I always regretted it does not contain a
"mount_ufs" command.)

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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