From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 6 14:22:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA00754 for current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00608 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA09166 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:22:12 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA21267 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:22:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id XAA12314 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:08:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603062208.XAA12314@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit floppy (Was: Please Read This) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:08:35 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603060949.JAA04751@tees> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 6, 96 09:49:34 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Richards wrote: > > The suggested way of using the fixit floppy is to boot the install > > floppy, and select the fixit option. > I couldn't get this to work, it's what I tried. The install floppy > always goes into sysinstall and I didn't see a fixit option, which > probably means I have an old install floppy. Certainly. You need the boot floppy from a 2.1R. > If you don't have DOS on your box then you're going to need to create these > floppies off the cdrom when you install initially a'la Win NT etc. I don't see any advantage of a separate boot floppy with just the GENERIC kernel only. The install floppy does have the same kernel, only blown up by its builtin MFS. But functionally, they are the same. If you need a custom kernel, you will have to create your custom boot floppy anway. Of course, you'd best do this in advance. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)