Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:43:02 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit floppy/CD Message-ID: <41525456.7000801@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20040922164130.GA17556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <41522380.2020804@broadpark.no> <20040922164130.GA17556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:14:40PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: > > >>Greetings, list! >> >>I've been reading about a "fixit floppy" that is supposed to exist >>somewhere, and a "fixit CD" too, but I can't for the life me find out >>anything more about them. Googling yields tons of references to >>"inserting the fixit floppy/CD", but none as to how one goes about >>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. > >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 > > Thanks! Another one of the FreeBSD mysteries unveiled. Hell, I'll be committing in no time!! (errr... or?) ;-) -Henrik W Lund
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