Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:09:00 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: rt <rtecco@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building a fixit floppy? Message-ID: <20010120130900.A65510@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10101201300130.11982-100000@breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>; from rtecco@umich.edu on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:02:16PM -0500 References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10101201300130.11982-100000@breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
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I don't know where you came across a 2.88M fixit.flp... But, if you go to your friendly local ftp.freebsd.org mirror and look for: pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/floppies/fixit.flp You will find a 1.44M version :) On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:02:16PM -0500, rt wrote: > > i am having trouble building a fixit floppy - which is > 2.88 M image. i can perform: > > dd if=fixit.flp of=/dev/fd0c (on my openbsd box) > > but it reaches the end of the device, writing 1.44 (obviously). > > when i try to use this disk, it looks like it works, but > commands like 'ls' and 'mount' just print garbage to the screen. > i don't know whether this is a corrupted binary or something > else. > > thx in advance, > rt > > ------------- > rt > 734-332-4562 > > "Most people's lives are taken up with > a great many trivial things that > they don't really care about, but > which they feel they have to > do. I just don't do that." > - esr > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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