From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 17:16:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227AF14DC9 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA02739; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:45:33 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA70661; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:45:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:45:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Cc: francisco@natserv.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Fixit from CD rom no more? Says disk 2 is Alpha dist. Message-ID: <19990821094531.H14964@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Clem.Dye@wdr.com on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:40:15AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [45 lines of extraneous text deleted] On Friday, 20 August 1999 at 11:40:15 +0100, Clem.Dye@wdr.com wrote: > On 20 August 1999 05:37, grog wrote: >> On Friday, 20 August 1999 at 0:21:32 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: >>> I just trie to run the "fixit" option from the Install disk. >>> When it asked for the second disk and I placed it, it said that >>> this was the "Alpha Distribution CD". >>> >>> How can I run Fixit from CD? >>> .. or will I have to prepare floppies? >>> >>> The archives have the same question, but did not find an answer. >> >> Unfortunately, this was an oversight in making the CD-ROMs. You won't >> be able to mount the CD-ROM in fixit mode in 3.2. It worked in 3.1, >> and it should work again in 3.3, but 3.2 fixit is broken. > > OK, if it's broken, what workarounds are there, if any? Use floppies/fixit.flp from the first CD-ROM. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message