From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 17:28:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6165D11371 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 10DekI-0001gx-00; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:28:46 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id BAA00534; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:28:14 GMT Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00748; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:26:47 GMT (envelope-from marko) Message-ID: <19990219012646.B417@localhost> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:26:46 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Keith Woodman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixit.flp References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Keith Woodman on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 04:21:41PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 04:21:41PM -0800, Keith Woodman wrote: > Needing some help on the fixit.flp. Just trying to be as prepared as I > can and making rescue disks etc. I can't seem to get it to work, unless I > am misunderstanding the purpose of the fixit. Here is what I assume... > Fixit.flp should give you a boot with a few tools on it to repair a > seriously damaged system.... Here is what I did. dd if=fixit.flp > of=/dev/fd0 To create the thing. I mount that disk and it has some tools > on it and a small tree of directories with different stuff tucked away > inside. Looks perfect for arescue disk as far as tools go. Did the same > thing with a boot.flp. So, I boot up with a boot.flp and select the "enter > repair mode with cdrom/floppy" > Then select. "use a floppy generated from the fixit image" Is this the > point that I pop in the fixit.flp? The statement looks as if I am supposed > to have generated some sort of kernel image with the fixit.flp. If I just > toss my fixit.flp in there it dies out telling me to put a writable fixit > disk into drive a: of the computer. And then locks up. I am obviously > misunderstanding how to implement the fixit.flp. Any help is greatly > appreciated. I have "The Complete FreeBSD" book and have also done exactly > as stated in there. It doesn't seem like this should be such a problem, > but for one reason or another, it has become one. > Keith > FWIW, the FIXIT option on the CD doesn't work either (as I found out when I got bitten by a bug that wiped out my password file). I posted a message here about it, but got no response - apart from someone asking what version of FreeBSD I'm running (2.2.8). Also someone else posted about the floppy FIXIT a couple of days ago, no response either. Maybe FreeBSD never needs to be fixed? ;-). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator > Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC > > > pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message