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Subject: Re: Fixit disk without a floppy drive
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Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes:

> I just encountered a situation where a system without a floppy drive
> failed with some disk corruption within files (not fsck issues).  In
> the process of trying to recover it, I found I needed to use the fixit
> disk.  I have used the floppy version successfully several times
> before, but this machine doesn't have a floppy drive.  Sysinstall
> indicated there was an equivallent fixit cd.  Where do you find that?
> I found a back door to get this machine corrected, but I need to be
> better prepared for the next failure.  FreeBSD 4.6.

Isn't that just the install disk?
"Fixit" is a menu option...