Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:51:05 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? Message-ID: <199603302151.WAA04525@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603301231.MAA00590@originat.demon.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 30, 96 12:31:16 pm
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As Paul Richards wrote: > I strongly disagree. The fixit floppy needs to be completely redone. I > wasn't aware that there was a single gzipped binary on it (has this > changed recently?) but that's frankly ridiculous. The fixit floppy > should work on any system as a last resort tool to recover from a fatal > error. Support for gzipped binaries isn't even present in a lot of kernels! The gzipp'ed binary is probably not even necessary, while i think that the crunched one is fine. > I think it's a design error to have fixit be shoe-horned into sysinstall. Not really. You need two floppies anyway (our kernel is rather large, so joining both floppies into one is certainly not a good option), so why not picking the regular boot.flp as a default. All you need to do is to also put init(8) onto the fixit floppy (i think it has been there some day back in the past), then you can boot just any floppy you want, and swap floppies after the kernel has been loaded. Creating a bootable floppy with your custom kernel is as simple as: disklabel -Brw fd0 fd1200 newfs -t0 -u0 -i65536 -l1 /dev/rfd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt cp /kernel /mnt umount /mnt Ah well, as Jordan mentioned: disagreement alone doesn't give us a better fixit floppy... :) -- 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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