From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 16:41:39 2004 Return-Path: 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 1CAE216A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:41:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C7643D55 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:41:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i8MGfVO9017743 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:41:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i8MGfURJ017742; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:41:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:41:30 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Henrik W Lund Message-ID: <20040922164130.GA17556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Henrik W Lund , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41522380.2020804@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41522380.2020804@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:41:31 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040904, clamav-milter version 0.75l on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit floppy/CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:41:39 -0000 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:14:40PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: > Greetings, list! >=20 > I've been reading about a "fixit floppy" that is supposed to exist=20 > somewhere, and a "fixit CD" too, but I can't for the life me find out=20 > anything more about them. Googling yields tons of references to=20 > "inserting the fixit floppy/CD", but none as to how one goes about=20 > making them! These certainly do exist -- generally you'ld just download some disk images and either copy them to floppy, or burn them to CD Rom: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-= media.html The fixit floppy can be found at eg. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE/floppies/ depending on the architecture and FreeBSD version you want. (Floppy images don't exist for all architecures). You can also find the floppy images in the /floppies directory of the Disk 1 iso-image, which is handy if you run into a CD drive you can't boot from. Similarly the ISO images you need are in eg.: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES/5.3/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.10/ Mutatis mutandis wrt. version numbers and architectures again. You want the disk2.iso, which is a standalone bootable image with a live file system on it. =20 If you want to create your own versions of these things from source, you need a local copy of the FreeBSD source CVS repository, and you can use the 'make release' command -- see /usr/src/release/Makefile and other files under directory. That's not something for the faint of heart though. 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 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBUas6iD657aJF7eIRAifwAJ9wGYp6rqBICrYbZ7/GSASxlRC0BwCaA5I6 mJY1zyNqTvzzD1bx5sHVJqc= =NKdc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--