From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 7 23:10:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA16087 for current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 23:10:57 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA16011; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 23:08:19 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA28557; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 23:07:44 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503080707.XAA28557@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Repair floppies - what should we have? To: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 23:07:43 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503080610.GAA15627@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen Hocking" at Mar 8, 95 04:10:20 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 643 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Recently a crash in the middle of a make world trashed my libc.so, and this > caused me to think long and hard about the issue of repair floppies. What I > came up with was this - We have a very open position for a "fixit" floppy designer... did I read your email as an application ? If I say please ? We had code in the kernel/boot-blocks to ask for a second floppy. We also have code to boot a compressed kernel (not comitted yet) + lots of other things/tools but we have little/no time :( -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.