From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 02:55:44 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 5AF0C16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:55:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (jgabel.net1.nerim.net [80.65.226.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB88643D4C for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56ADB78C67 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:55:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27729-01-2 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:55:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8276E78C66 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:55:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.0.97 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:55:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <52039.192.168.0.97.1080816941.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <406BEFA4.1050801@gmx.de> References: <406BEFA4.1050801@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:55:41 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thilelli.net Subject: Re: Recovery CD for FreeBSD 5.2.1 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: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:55:44 -0000 > I just installed FreeBSD and now would like to create a recovery CD. > I know that there is a recovery floppy, but my floppy drive is > broken, so I hope to find an appropriate CD image. For installation > I used the mini-iso-image, but it seems that it is impossible to > start a recovery session with it. And the "emergency shell" does not > even know "ls". Is it better to download the disc1-image? Does it > provide recovery tools? You can use the LiveCD named '5.2.1-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso'. You can dowload it from: http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/ An other solution is to give a try to FreeSBIE, a live system on CD: http://www.freesbie.org/ -- -jpeg.