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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:06:50 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Fixit from CD rom no more? Says disk 2 is Alpha dist.
Message-ID:  <19990820140649.Z14964@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908200420.AAA14261@vulcan.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:21:32AM -0400
References:  <199908200420.AAA14261@vulcan.addy.com>

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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.

Greg
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