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RE: HELP! How to mount hard drive from rescue disk!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Lenzer)
Fri Nov 27 12:30:57 1998
From: "George Lenzer" <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
To: <bulbul@ucla.edu>, "Redhat list" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:27:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <365EDC29.649F5B13@csi.com>
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Try this:
mount /dev/hda1 /<empty dir in VFS> -t ext2
The mount point should be an empty directory. Since the file system is in
RAM, you may want to use the tmp directory. (I can't remember if you can
make a new directory on the VFS.)
Hope this helps,
G. Lenzer
Technology Specialist
CH-UH Public Library
> -----Original Message-----
> From: leston@csi.com [mailto:leston@csi.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 1998 12:07 PM
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> Subject: HELP! How to mount hard drive from rescue disk!
>
>
> Hi. I'm unable to boot because of the problem described in the thread
> "HELP!--Won't boot! What's UTMP?". Someone responded to me (thanks,
> Jan!) telling me how and where to create the necessary utmp file.
>
> But i'm using a rescue disk for the very first time, and i can't figure
> out for the life of me how to mount the hard drive (/dev/hda1) that i
> need to access to create this file. The fstab that's loaded from the
> rescue disk only has ram, proc, and floppy. There's a command in
> /usr/bin called "add-to-fstab", but i get a "permission denied" when i
> try to use it.
>
> Could someone tell me how to mount my hard drive in rescue mode? I would
> be most grateful.
>
> --
> Leston Buell
> bulbul@ucla.edu
>
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