From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 16:54:38 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 C365B37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E1D143F3F for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044233654.039db3@mired.org) Received: (qmail 39954 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2003 00:54:14 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 29 Jan 2003 00:54:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15927.9781.687511.670713@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:54:13 -0600 To: bastill@adam.com.au Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fixit instructions In-Reply-To: <1043800649.3e372249b8066@webmail.adam.com.au> References: <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au> <15926.3781.54965.702684@guru.mired.org> <1043736426.3e36276aee60a@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030128130709.GA25877@gothmog.gr> <1043800649.3e372249b8066@webmail.adam.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) 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 In <1043800649.3e372249b8066@webmail.adam.com.au>, bastill@adam.com.au typed: > 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. You don't have to boot the fixit cd - just mount it and look. I'm sure that what you will find on the CD is a pretty complete FreeBSD system, with the layout described in the hier man page. All the Fixit CDROM is is a complete FreeBSD system. That's the single best tool you could be provided for fxing a fried system. Creating special documentation for that is pretty much pointless, because all it would do is duplicate the existing documentation. To learn about how to repair systems with the Fixit CD, you need to learn how to repair systems with FreeBSD. That documentation is in the man pages, the handbook and the FAQ. Basically, there's nothing special or magical about the Fixit disk, so there's no need for any special documentation. If you believe that's wrong, please feel free to write it and submit it as either a FAQ or handbook entry. I'll be more than happy to review your words if you want. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message