How do I mount the Drive

Kim Briggs patiodragon at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 02:56:10 UTC 2017


On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Dr. Mikeal Hughes <macmikeal at me.com> wrote:
> Or boot off your Live CD and fix the login problem. Boot off the live
> CD, then:
>
> - add a user "fred"
> - set fred's password and remember it
> - mount the hard drive eg on /mnt
> - edit /mnt/etc/passwd
> - copy fred's line from /etc/passwd to /mnt/etc/passwd
> - copy fred's line from /etc/shadow to /mnt/etc/shadow
> - copy fred's line from /etc/group to /mnt/etc/group
> - append "fred" to the sudo line in /mnt/etc/group
>
>
> I understand ever thing but mount the hard drive e.g. on /mnt - huh?
>
>From a live CD, you may only be able to use the "mount" command
(versus the /etc/fstab).

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mount.8.html




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