From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 10:53:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4337C16A4CE for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx06.covadmail.net [63.65.120.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABDB443D41 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 22925 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2004 18:52:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mist.nodomain) (strick@covad.net@67.101.99.236) by sun-qmail16 with SMTP; 28 Feb 2004 18:52:55 -0000 Received: from mist.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mist.nodomain (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1SIqvDN000566; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:52:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mist.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by mist.nodomain (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i1SIqvwC000565; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:52:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:52:57 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200402281852.i1SIqvwC000565@mist.nodomain> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: dan@mist.nodomain Subject: Re: Bootonly CDROM utilities X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:53:01 -0000 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