From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 9 01:36:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA01585 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 01:36:36 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (mailhub.tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA01578 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 01:36:32 -0800 Received: by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) Message-Id: From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: Repair floppies - what should we have? (fwd) To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 01:35:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, krnlhkr@mcs.com, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, julian@tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503090616.WAA21778@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 8, 95 10:16:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1816 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I built a good fixit floppy today using the crunch stuff. I used the fixit definition in the crunch sources examples directory.. it basically includes the universe.. as a compressed executable, it 'is only 500k, and includes everything you could want including vi. check out the definition in /usr/src/usr.sbin/crunch/examples I used it today.. works fine and I had 700k left for actually writing on in the disk. (which I needed for that problem). I'll be cleaning it up and puting it into the release makefile so it gets built along with the other floppies... Joe-bob says "see it". julian > > >> > >> > >> <---- Begin Included Message ----> > >> > >> an editor, could be small, could be brain dead. > >> just something to diddle files > >... > >> > >> <---- End Included Message ----> > >> > >> How about "ed"? That's small and brain dead, heh. > >> > >Not by floppy standards: > >-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 110592 Feb 23 22:24 /bin/ed > > > >That is 1/10 of the space you have on a 1.2MB floppy :-(. > > > >-- > >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > >Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD > > Rod. How close are you to getting the kcopy floppy and assorted tools > cleaned up? I commonly use a heavily adulterated kcopy floppy to save > my but, and it seems like 3/4 of the machinery for a good fixit floppy > is already there. When your stuff goes into the tree, others who use > these floppies can contribute to creating a couple of different fixit > floppies for different scenarios. > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > ============================================== > TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 > Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus > ============================================== >