From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 30 15:24:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21277 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:24:07 -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 PAA21225 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA26520 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:23:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA15326 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:23:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA04525 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:51:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603302151.WAA04525@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:51:05 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603301231.MAA00590@originat.demon.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 30, 96 12:31:16 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)