From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 19:45:45 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 956BD16A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:45:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E08B43D2D for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:45:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (52.80-202-129.nextgentel.com [80.202.129.52]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B410F1C4E; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:46:25 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <41525456.7000801@broadpark.no> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:43:02 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: nb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <41522380.2020804@broadpark.no> <20040922164130.GA17556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040922164130.GA17556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 19:45:45 -0000 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