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Subject: Re: Help HOWTO create a Recovery Disk for BSDI?
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If your trying to restore boot blocks or kernel your'll need
a BSDi 2.1 CD Rom FreeBSD will not work.

I suggest you try the BSDi archives at:
http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/

Or mail the BSDI list.

Regards,
Peter
NewNet Ltd


Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:14:25 +1100, Danny wrote:
> 
> > - this is an emergency
> 
> Then you should probably contact the people you pay to support your BSDI
> installation.  BSDI is a commercial product, no?  You may as well get
> what you're paying for. :-)
> 
> > - I need to create an emergency recovery disk for BSDI 2.1
> 
> I have absolutely no idea how to go about this.  You might get a better
> answer from someone else on the freebsd-questions mailing list, but if
> this is a real emergency, take my aadvice above.
> 
> > 1) Is it possible to create a BSDI Emergency Recovery disk from FreeBSD?
> > (using mount /cdrom -> cd /cdrom/FLOPPIES/recovery.image /A) ??
> 
> Sounds feasible.  Mount the CDROM and then use dd to create a disk image
> from the file, e.g.:
> 
>         dd if=recovery.image of=/dev/fd0
> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
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