From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 21 4:32:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7476A151FF for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 04:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([203.197.137.158]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07256; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:01:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00970; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:01:34 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:01:34 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: ROGIER MULHUIJZEN , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Better fixit (was: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy?) Message-ID: <20000121180134.G517@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <98777.948450422@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <98777.948450422@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:27:02AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 2:27:02 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> script. The script basically translates tar commands to cpio commands, >> which makes sense, since the cpio binary is a LOT smaller than tar. But >> there's no cpio on the fixit floppy....... >> >> And there's no ifconfig on the floppy either, so why even bother with >> telnet/ftp/mount_nfs? > > You need to also look at what's on the mfsroot floppy because they're > used in conjunction with one another. If you want a better fixit floppy, you should consider the new custom disk pair with PicoBSD (see picobsd(8) in -CURRENT). It includes everything on the old fixit floppy, also real tar and a number of other programs, including rsh. There's still space on there; what else could we put there? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message