Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:22:20 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: fixit.flp or fixit via "live filesystem" CD] Message-ID: <20031218112220.GB18028@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <32941.66.122.244.188.1071743539.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com> References: <32941.66.122.244.188.1071743539.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com>
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--eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:32:19AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > RE2: > http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/installation/i386/trouble.html >=20 > The page above always makes a skirting blow or furtive glance at > what is possible with a fixit.flp (namely that /stand and > /mnt2/stand have some goodies) but without the use of the "ls" > binary command I am a fish driving a tricycle (that is, useless!) Try: echo * The fixit.flp image had to be severely pruned to get it down to 1.44Mb so it would fit on a floppy. You'll find you've got a functional shell, and that shell globbing and the shell built-ins will work fine: cd pwd echo exit etc. The pruning is so severe you don't get eg. 'cat' or 'more' -- to read the contents of a file, use: sed < filename There are also a bunch of crucial filesystem and network management commands that usually live in /sbin, but not much else. That's really only just enough to patch the system and copy necessary data from a remote machine sufficient to boot up to single user mode and not a lot else. Once you've got to single user you've got the whole command set of the OS to play with. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/4Y3sdtESqEQa7a0RAo/mAJ49GbueAb9/CuUJ5BlGS/JkkScQcgCfZAc5 DmrBR7WHpWt6pr4W8+fPt0s= =Qkur -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--
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