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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: FreeBSD will not mount the /usr and swap partitions! Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:57:49 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <318162FD.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <4loimn$pi0@ganesh.sdstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Dave Hartzell <hartzeld@cc.sdstate.edu> Dave Hartzell wrote: > Being unable to mount a DOS hard drive, but able to mount a floppy, > someone told me that if I run a `sh MAKEDEV wd1' that it might fix the > problem of not reading my MS-DOS partitions. You shouldn't have done that - you shot yourself in the foot.. :-) > boots, it can't mount the /dev/wd1aXXX partitions! That includes the > swap, proc and /usr stuff, so I can't get any man pages up. Yep, blown away by the MAKEDEV. Do this now: cd /dev sh MAKEDEV wd1s1a -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project