Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:07:18 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit media (Re: URGENT: bad superblock) Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007261803300.291-100000@armani.yourfit.com> In-Reply-To: <20000726174150.E21784@pir.net>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> probably said:
>
> > Which turns out to be a little hard sometimes (been there with the
> > 4.0 CD set this week) when the fixit media doesn't have slice
> > entries in /dev and you don't have access to the (yet to be
> > mounted!) filesystem with the appropriate /dev entries. Funnily
>
> Speaking of fixit media, is there still a fixit CD image ? My new
> laptop has (amongst it's other minor problems) a USB floppy, which
> works to boot/install from, but sysinstall doesn't see it as a
> floppy for use with the fixit floppy (it appears as da0).
>
> Now, I do have a bootable cdrom drive, so a bootable fixit CD with
> an image on it would be very useful to me - is there one (to
> purchase or an image), which sysinstall can use as the "live" image
> ?
Yes. The second CD of the 4-CD set has a "live" filesystem from
which you can run sysinstall (it comes up automatically, actually) and
get to a fixit prompt.
> Can I just burn a CD with boot.flp as the boot image and the
> filesystem from my existing machine and expect it to work ?
Hmm...I don't know if there's something else that has to be done
to make a CD bootable. Isn't there a target somewhere for making the
ISO images?
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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