From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 01:04:48 2004 Return-Path: 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 519E016A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:04:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail003.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail003.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A832443D41 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:04:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anubis357@optusnet.com.au) Received: from rdlax9-004.dialup.optusnet.com.au (rdlax9-004.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.44.4])i2P94d403237; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:04:39 +1100 From: anubis To: "tachles" , "freebsd-questions" Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:09:06 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403251909.06975.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: Repairing XFree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:04:48 -0000 > 2) use of fixit mode > I have found other questions on this list about this topic. > As suggested, I used the live CD and the CDROM/DVD option and then: > mount -t ufs /mnt2/dev/ad0s1a /mnt > ... but I get: > mount: /mnt2/dev/ad01sa: Operation not permitted I dont know about the rest but the above has a typo try mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt