From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 3:19:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6B614DC8; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 03:19:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 1294kf-0000uD-00; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:18:45 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Danny Cc: "Brian Gallucci" , "FreeBSD" , ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help HOWTO create a Recovery Disk for BSDI? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:14:25 +1100." <3.0.32.20000114221419.0076a754@idx.com.au> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:18:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3484.947848725@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:14:25 +1100, Danny wrote: > - this is an emergency Then you should probably contact the people you pay to support your BSDI installation. BSDI is a commercial product, no? You may as well get what you're paying for. :-) > - I need to create an emergency recovery disk for BSDI 2.1 I have absolutely no idea how to go about this. You might get a better answer from someone else on the freebsd-questions mailing list, but if this is a real emergency, take my aadvice above. > 1) Is it possible to create a BSDI Emergency Recovery disk from FreeBSD? > (using mount /cdrom -> cd /cdrom/FLOPPIES/recovery.image /A) ?? Sounds feasible. Mount the CDROM and then use dd to create a disk image from the file, e.g.: dd if=recovery.image of=/dev/fd0 Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message