From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 22:31:39 2003 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 ECD3237B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:31:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BA3C43F43 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:31:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 11636 invoked by uid 65534); 30 Jan 2003 06:21:12 -0000 Received: from 202.6.144.106 ( [202.6.144.106]) as user bastill@mail.adam.com.au by webmail.adam.com.au with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:51:12 +1030 Message-ID: <1043907672.3e38c458244c1@webmail.adam.com.au> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:51:12 +1030 From: bastill@adam.com.au To: Mike Meyer , Chuck Swiger Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fixit instructions References: <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au> <15926.3781.54965.702684@guru.mired.org> <1043736426.3e36276aee60a@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030128130709.GA25877@gothmog.gr> <1043800649.3e372249b8066@webmail.adam.com.au> <15927.9781.687511.670713@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15927.9781.687511.670713@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 202.6.144.106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Mike Meyer : > You don't have to boot the fixit cd - just mount it and look. I'm sure > that what you will find on the CD is a pretty complete FreeBSD system, > with the layout described in the hier man page. Close, but... root@BAPhD ~ #ls /cdrom .cshrc bin etc modules sys .profile boot filename.txt proc tmp COPYRIGHT cdrom.inf floppies root usr CVS-REPO commerce kernel.GENERIC rr_moved var README.TXT dev mnt sbin Note the absence of mnt2 and stand, both of which I was aked to examine. Those directories are set up on booting the cdrom and entering Fixit mode. bin, sbin and usr/bin on the cd are indeed readable ( and extensive) directly from the CD. I don't mean to be difficult or over-demanding about this, especially to people who are offering help, but what I was expecting was trhat some helpful guru would have prepared a "Fixit Handbook" which might have chapters like "Repairing a corrupt partition table" and "Restoring a lost directory" and ... whatever. Perhaps the book Chuck suggested would do that. Reading man pages doesn't tell me with any clarity which commands go with what do do something. One really needs far more knowledge than I have to make sense of it all. Perhaps that's the issue. Fixit is intended for expert use only? Thanks for your help, anyway. -- Brian > > All the Fixit CDROM is is a complete FreeBSD system. That's the single > best tool you could be provided for fxing a fried system. Creating > special documentation for that is pretty much pointless, because all > it would do is duplicate the existing documentation. To learn about > how to repair systems with the Fixit CD, you need to learn how to > repair systems with FreeBSD. That documentation is in the man pages, > the handbook and the FAQ. > > Basically, there's nothing special or magical about the Fixit disk, so > there's no need for any special documentation. If you believe that's > wrong, please feel free to write it and submit it as either a FAQ or > handbook entry. I'll be more than happy to review your words if you > want. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. > ----------------------------------------------- This message sent through Adam Internet Webmail http://www.adam.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message