From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 16:37:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5731C37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:37:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CC0343E4A for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:37:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 72604 invoked by uid 65534); 29 Jan 2003 00:37:29 -0000 Received: from 202.6.144.106 ( [202.6.144.106]) as user bastill@mail.adam.com.au by webmail.adam.com.au with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:07:29 +1030 Message-ID: <1043800649.3e372249b8066@webmail.adam.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:07:29 +1030 From: bastill@adam.com.au To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fixit instructions References: <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au> <15926.3781.54965.702684@guru.mired.org> <1043736426.3e36276aee60a@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030128130709.GA25877@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030128130709.GA25877@gothmog.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 202.6.144.106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Giorgos Keramidas : > On 2003-01-28 17:17, bastill@adam.com.au wrote: > > Quoting Mike Meyer : > > > There are also some writeups on the FreeBSD web site on > > > troubleshooting. > > > > Don't doubt you, but that is the first place I looked on the > > Internet. That info is well hidden, I think. > > Not quite. I believe by 'troubleshooting' Mike was referring to the > FAQ section. It should be pretty easy to find, if you start browsing > at [ http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html ]. The first page of the site, > at [ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ ], contains various documentation links. > > I wouldn't call that `hidden'. May I respectfully ask you to follow your own advice? Then - assuming you do not already know the answer (as obviously, I don't) determine which of the documents would tell you how to use the Fixit disk. BTW, Mike and Chuck gave info which is not accurate for v5 Release Disk2 (It's OK for v4.6, except that /mnt2/usr/bin doen't exist) and apart from one O'Reilly book which I shall seek out, they basically suggest simply that I read all the man pages for the commands available in Fixit mode. FBSD has excellent documentation in so many areas that I find it VERY strange that Fixit use is such an exception. I can't even get a description of the Fixit structure or a list of all the commands available, other than by booting from the Fixit CD and looking. That's odd. -- Brian -- Brian ----------------------------------------------- This message sent through Adam Internet Webmail http://www.adam.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message