From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 9:44:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from black.purplecat.net (ns1.purplecat.net [209.16.228.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AEB37B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:44:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@black.purplecat.net) Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by black.purplecat.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28035 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:47:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from peter@black.purplecat.net) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:47:08 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Brezny To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to mount fs's of a broken install? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got an install of freebsd 4.2-stable that I broke. I'd like to be able to boot off the install disks, go into that 'fixit' shell, then mount the existing file systems and try to clean things up. Is there a tutorial on how to do this? I've attempted to moutn the file systems manually (i've got an identical machine here so i know what the mount points are, however mkdir /hd1 mount /dev/twed0s1a /hd1 gives me a file not found error. There's got to be a way to do this. TIA pb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message