Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:45:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Cc: francisco@natserv.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Fixit from CD rom no more? Says disk 2 is Alpha dist. Message-ID: <19990821094531.H14964@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <H0000082020c9588@MHS>; from Clem.Dye@wdr.com on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:40:15AM %2B0100 References: <H0000082020c9588@MHS>
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[45 lines of extraneous text deleted] On Friday, 20 August 1999 at 11:40:15 +0100, Clem.Dye@wdr.com wrote: > On 20 August 1999 05:37, grog wrote: >> On Friday, 20 August 1999 at 0:21:32 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: >>> I just trie to run the "fixit" option from the Install disk. >>> When it asked for the second disk and I placed it, it said that >>> this was the "Alpha Distribution CD". >>> >>> How can I run Fixit from CD? >>> .. or will I have to prepare floppies? >>> >>> The archives have the same question, but did not find an answer. >> >> Unfortunately, this was an oversight in making the CD-ROMs. You won't >> be able to mount the CD-ROM in fixit mode in 3.2. It worked in 3.1, >> and it should work again in 3.3, but 3.2 fixit is broken. > > OK, if it's broken, what workarounds are there, if any? Use floppies/fixit.flp from the first CD-ROM. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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