Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 22:34:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@home.com> To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: chapter about using the fixit floppy? Message-ID: <XFMail.000714223428.gbuchana@home.com> In-Reply-To: <14702.39370.781772.894664@whale.home-net>
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On 04:40:42 John Reynolds wrote: > > Is there a chapter of the Handbook that details how to use the "fixit" > floppy? > I just recently had an "interesting" fixit experience as well. Device entries are just part of it. I think a general outline of the "fixit" environment is needed, together with a description of how to handle some common tasks in the environment. The Fixit environment is sufficiently bizarre that even a seasoned UNIX pro will likely have trouble figuring things out. This is complicated a little by there being three distinct Fixit environments that vary wildly: o Holographic Fixit shell, o Fixit Diskette, and o CD Fixit. I'd like to see a "Fixit" section somewhere under "Advanced Topics". It might have a couple of sentences about single user mode, but mostly discuss Fixit environments. It would deal with the three main environments. For each, outlining o what gets mounted where, o where your shell is chroot'ed to (if anywhere), o what things are in the path and what they're capable of, and o how to carry out some basic tasks The example tasks might be: o doing a disklabel/newfs o installing boot blocks o restoring a dump o fixing an fstab John's experiences would fit somewhere into this I'm sure. I'd like to give something like this a go, unless there is already material in place that I don't know about. Any suggestions about topics that I've missed? Pointers to source materials? See you, ============================================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@home.com> Ottawa, ON FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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