Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:41:30 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit floppy/CD Message-ID: <20040922164130.GA17556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <41522380.2020804@broadpark.no> References: <41522380.2020804@broadpark.no>
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:14:40PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote:
> Greetings, list!
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> I've been reading about a "fixit floppy" that is supposed to exist=20
> somewhere, and a "fixit CD" too, but I can't for the life me find out=20
> anything more about them. Googling yields tons of references to=20
> "inserting the fixit floppy/CD", but none as to how one goes about=20
> making them!
These certainly do exist -- generally you'ld just download some disk
images and either copy them to floppy, or burn them to CD Rom:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-=
media.html
The fixit floppy can be found at eg.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE/floppies/
depending on the architecture and FreeBSD version you want. (Floppy
images don't exist for all architecures). You can also find the
floppy images in the /floppies directory of the Disk 1 iso-image,
which is handy if you run into a CD drive you can't boot from.
Similarly the ISO images you need are in eg.:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES/5.3/
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.10/
Mutatis mutandis wrt. version numbers and architectures again. You
want the disk2.iso, which is a standalone bootable image with a live
file system on it.
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If you want to create your own versions of these things from source,
you need a local copy of the FreeBSD source CVS repository, and you
can use the 'make release' command -- see /usr/src/release/Makefile
and other files under directory. That's not something for the faint
of heart though.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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