Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:52:57 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: dan@mist.nodomain Subject: Re: Bootonly CDROM utilities Message-ID: <200402281852.i1SIqvwC000565@mist.nodomain>
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On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:25, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >> > If we're going to have a bootable CD-R in the distribution, it might be > useful/handy to have ancilliary utilities on that disc, to do partition > mangling (etc) as well. There's plenty of space now, at least. ;-) >> An then Arjan van Leeuwen responded: >> > Isn't that what fixit (cd 2) is for? >> Yes, but it would be so very very convenient if it were a single CD that booted the GENERIC kernel and came up in single user or some such state. The sysinstall fixit option is rather clumsy. For example, after installing WinXP I often want to reinstall the FreeBSD boot0 program in the MBR. I can do that via sysinstall but for various reasons much prefer to use the boot0cfg program. Why not make the live file system CD (i.e. ...disc2.iso, the fixit CD) bootable? It could serve both purposes. Dan Strick strick@covad.net
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