Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 01:22:00 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit disk without a floppy drive Message-ID: <200305250122.00054.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <448yswz8od.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <3C74172A-8D96-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org> <448yswz8od.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sun, 25 May 2003 00:35, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes: > > I just encountered a situation where a system without a floppy drive > > failed with some disk corruption within files (not fsck issues). In > > the process of trying to recover it, I found I needed to use the fixi= t > > disk. I have used the floppy version successfully several times > > before, but this machine doesn't have a floppy drive. Sysinstall > > indicated there was an equivallent fixit cd. Where do you find that? > > I found a back door to get this machine corrected, but I need to be > > better prepared for the next failure. FreeBSD 4.6. > > Isn't that just the install disk? > "Fixit" is a menu option... Normally the "live file system" CD which in the past has been disk 2 of t= he=20 set. (I don't know for FBSD 5.x) Malcolm=20
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