From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 20:42:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA10737 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpp.minn.net (mpp.Minn.Net [204.157.201.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA10726 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA00200 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:39:28 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199601160439.WAA00200@mpp.minn.net> Subject: recovery floppy To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:39:28 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I was attempting to fix a friends FreeBSD 2.1 machine, and was having problems getting my recovery floppy mounted It turns out that the clean flag on the file system on the floppy was not set, thus the install program would not mount it. Perhaps there should be an option in sysinstall to allow you to fsck the recovery floppy if the mount fails. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@mpp.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"