From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 01:52:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA00241 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 01:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00210 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 01:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA02328 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:51:43 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA27130 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:51:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA17006 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:41:49 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601160941.KAA17006@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: recovery floppy To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:41:49 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601160439.WAA00200@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jan 15, 96 10:39:28 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)