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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:41:49 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: recovery floppy
Message-ID:  <199601160941.KAA17006@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601160439.WAA00200@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jan 15, 96 10:39:28 pm

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As Mike Pritchard wrote:
> 
> 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

Well, i've also stumpled across this once (machine went stuck, so i
had to press the BRB), but i've got another FreeBSD machine around to
fsck it...

> it.  Perhaps there should be an option in sysinstall
> to allow you to fsck the recovery floppy if the mount fails.

It could automagically do it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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