From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 15: 9: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yourfit.com (28.wxfr1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.150.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D9437C025; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from armani.yourfit.com (armani.yourfit.com [192.168.1.120]) by mail.yourfit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27007; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:07:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:07:18 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit media (Re: URGENT: bad superblock) In-Reply-To: <20000726174150.E21784@pir.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Gerhard Sittig probably said: > > > Which turns out to be a little hard sometimes (been there with the > > 4.0 CD set this week) when the fixit media doesn't have slice > > entries in /dev and you don't have access to the (yet to be > > mounted!) filesystem with the appropriate /dev entries. Funnily > > Speaking of fixit media, is there still a fixit CD image ? My new > laptop has (amongst it's other minor problems) a USB floppy, which > works to boot/install from, but sysinstall doesn't see it as a > floppy for use with the fixit floppy (it appears as da0). > > Now, I do have a bootable cdrom drive, so a bootable fixit CD with > an image on it would be very useful to me - is there one (to > purchase or an image), which sysinstall can use as the "live" image > ? Yes. The second CD of the 4-CD set has a "live" filesystem from which you can run sysinstall (it comes up automatically, actually) and get to a fixit prompt. > Can I just burn a CD with boot.flp as the boot image and the > filesystem from my existing machine and expect it to work ? Hmm...I don't know if there's something else that has to be done to make a CD bootable. Isn't there a target somewhere for making the ISO images? -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message