From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 5 9:38:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18AA937B403 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 09:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 66455 invoked by uid 100); 5 Aug 2001 16:38:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15213.30326.292380.270266@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:38:14 -0500 To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MBR got hosed! In-Reply-To: <16452138@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Louis LeBlanc types: > What I'd like to know is if there is any possibility of getting a > FreeBSD disk that boots and can fdisk the MBR? I know the code is out > there, but can it all get stuck in one floppy? Sure. You just need a bootable 2.88M floppy drive. If you only have 1.44M floppies, you need two disks. One is kern.flp from the installation disks. For the other, use fixit.flp, and add fdisk to the /bin directory. There may not be room, in which case choose something to delete. Alternatively, you can use the fixit cdrom from the distribution, which already has fdisk on it. If you have to have it on one floppy, there was a time when FBSD could be installed from one floppy. You'll have to go back to that version and build it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message