>> okay, i mounted the drive /usr.
>> the exact zip-drive directions made my kernel panic, but the above
>> directions made my system work fine.  i think redundancy for some
>> directions in the faq would be great for semi-newbies like me.
>> the zip FAQ also mentions adding a line to /etc/disktab to mount the
>> filesystem automatically (don't they mean /etc/fstab by the way?).
>
>Which ZIP howto were you looking at?  There are two at the moment (both
>fairly useful), but I haven't had time to integrate them yet.  Chances are
>that it meant /etc/fstab, though.
>

the one on www.macbsd.com/macbsd -> HOW-TO link -> Zip howto

>> just a
>> line at the end of the file with: "mount /dev/sdXa /whatever"?
>
>Uh...no.  More like:
>
>/dev/sdXa /users ffs rw 1 2
>

okay, the file is /etc/fstab .  /etc/disktab looks totally different :-)
yeah, i got something to the effect of the above line, except i used ufs
instead of ffs. whoops. (it didn't work with ufs).
hmm, just doing it now....it didn't work with ffs either. :-\
what could be wrong?

>make sure that the /users directory exists as a mount point first, tho.  I
>don't think that mount can mount on top of a non-existant directory ;-)
>
>> (i just ran across this problem because i made my 2nd hard drive /usr, and
>> the system won't boot up because it needs a lot of stuff found in /usr).
>> thanks,
>
>Doh!  You can just boot into single-user and modify /etc/fstab there.
>Then it won't mount your zip drive over your /usr directory.
>

lame newbie question: how can i boot in single user and modify if it's
read-only in single user?
oh wait, is the filesystem not mounted at single user as default?

  - a

 Armen Babikyan - armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu
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