From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 21:39:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42925151FA for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA26552; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:06:52 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA62681; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:06:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:06:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Fixit from CD rom no more? Says disk 2 is Alpha dist. Message-ID: <19990820140649.Z14964@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908200420.AAA14261@vulcan.addy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908200420.AAA14261@vulcan.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:21:32AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 20 August 1999 at 0:21:32 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I just trie to run the "fixit" option from the Install disk. > When it asked for the second disk and I placed it, it said that > this was the "Alpha Distribution CD". > > How can I run Fixit from CD? > .. or will I have to prepare floppies? > > The archives have the same question, but did not find an answer. Unfortunately, this was an oversight in making the CD-ROMs. You won't be able to mount the CD-ROM in fixit mode in 3.2. It worked in 3.1, and it should work again in 3.3, but 3.2 fixit is broken. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message