From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 21: 2: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660E437B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:01:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C9E243E4A for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044162117.79082c@mired.org) Received: (qmail 28104 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2003 05:01:57 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 28 Jan 2003 05:01:57 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15926.3781.54965.702684@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:01:57 -0600 To: bastill@adam.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit instructions In-Reply-To: <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au> References: <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 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\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) 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 In <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au>, bastill@adam.com.au typed: > I'm somewhat puzzled. > > The only helpful instruction I have found on the use of the Fixit disk are these: > "You will then be placed into a shell with a wide variety of commands available > (in the /stand and /mnt2/stand directories) for checking, repairing and > examining file systems and their contents. Some UNIX administration experience > is required to use the fixit option." > > Surely there must be something more comprehensive than this? ls /stand/bin and /mnt2/bin, and possibly /stand/usr/bin and /mnt2/usr/bin. Then read the manual pages for each of those commands on Unix. There are also some writeups on the FreeBSD web site on troubleshooting. In general, fixit mode is only useful if you know how to fix a broken unix system using standard unix commands, as that what it gives you. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html 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