From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 22:22:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA17101 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:22:40 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA17093 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:22:32 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA07400; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 06:21:06 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA04034; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 06:21:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA17843; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 00:09:51 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510012309.AAA17843@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.0-950928-SNAP now available for testing To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 00:09:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Oct 1, 95 02:21:56 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1451 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > > There are a few remaining bugs in the fixit disk: > > 1) It's nice that you've included the floppy tape filter 'ft' on the > fixit. It would be even nicer if you included the /dev/rft0 device node > so we could actually use it! :-) > > 2) vi won't run unless it has a /tmp directory it can write to, and it > complains if it doesn't have /var/tmp for it's vi.recover file. Simply > 'mkdir /tmp /var/tmp' will fix this. > > 3) When I typed 'pwd' from the fixit shell, it complained 'can't find > /stand/pwd' and went into some kind of weird subshell. Any further > commands were just ignored, but exiting got me back to the previous > shell. There are most likely more things missing. I haven't checked the current state of affairs, my 2.1-alpha is being built right now. Last time i've checked the fixit floppy, many things weren't there. Among them (offhand): o a minimum termcap file o a non-null spwd.db file (containing at least the root entry, so rsh/rcp/rdump/rrestore would work) o mount_mfs, to enable large /tmp filesystems; restore requires lots of space in /tmp in order to drop its symtab files o the ps(1) command was entirely useless (no /dev/kmem, no kernel with a symbol table around) Does anyone else have wishes for the fixit floppy? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)