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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Sun, 25 May 2003 00:35, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 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 fixi=
t
> > 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...

Normally the "live file system" CD which in the past has been disk 2 of t=
he=20
set. (I don't know for FBSD 5.x)

Malcolm=20