From owner-freebsd-ipfw Fri Jan 14 15:22:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BC6150EE; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:22:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from psych ([203.41.44.139]) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA25535; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:24:23 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000115102329.006a5d34@idx.com.au> X-Sender: dannyh@idx.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:23:34 +1100 To: Sheldon Hearn From: Danny Subject: Re: Help HOWTO create a Recovery Disk for BSDI? Cc: "Brian Gallucci" , "FreeBSD" , ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG THank you.. It works...... At 13:18 14/01/00 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > >On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:14:25 +1100, Danny wrote: > >> - this is an emergency > >Then you should probably contact the people you pay to support your BSDI >installation. BSDI is a commercial product, no? You may as well get >what you're paying for. :-) > >> - I need to create an emergency recovery disk for BSDI 2.1 > >I have absolutely no idea how to go about this. You might get a better >answer from someone else on the freebsd-questions mailing list, but if >this is a real emergency, take my aadvice above. > >> 1) Is it possible to create a BSDI Emergency Recovery disk from FreeBSD? >> (using mount /cdrom -> cd /cdrom/FLOPPIES/recovery.image /A) ?? > >Sounds feasible. Mount the CDROM and then use dd to create a disk image >from the file, e.g.: > > dd if=recovery.image of=/dev/fd0 > >Ciao, >Sheldon. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message