Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 01:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: bdevs have been assimilated. Message-ID: <ksG=bs_00UwD1Qmg80@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991202233401.A84265@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <19991125133001.64729@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912021717520.6279-100000@semuta.feral.com> <19991202202419.01433@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991202233401.A84265@dragon.nuxi.com>
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Excerpts from FreeBSD-Current: 2-Dec-99 Re: HEADS-UP: bdevs have be.. by "David O'Brien"@FreeBSD. > At 2MB the Alpha fixit floppy isn't very useful. Nor is there a live > files system for the Alpha. Nor can you even boot sysinstall and get a > shell if you use a serial console. All-in-all recovery on the Alpha is > "lacking". Yup, at the times when I trashed my alpha install the install disk and NFS have been my only friends (the emergency shell is just enough to get you to mount_nfs a snapshot sitting elsewhere, albeit not in a friendly way not even having 'ls' :) One could make an NFS-client bootdisk for rescue, although a live cdrom fits the bill far better... is there room on the i386 disk for alpha bits? It would save having to ship an extra disk if that's an issue. It's no big deal to cd /cdrom/alpha, maybe toss a few symlinks around, to easilly recover the system. Tom (who is joyful enough since floppy support appeared on the alpha) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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