Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:01:34 +0530 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: ROGIER MULHUIJZEN <MULHUIJZEN@PZH.NL>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Better fixit (was: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy?) Message-ID: <20000121180134.G517@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <98777.948450422@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:27:02AM -0800 References: <s888374a.083@smtp.pzh.nl> <98777.948450422@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 2:27:02 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> script. The script basically translates tar commands to cpio commands, >> which makes sense, since the cpio binary is a LOT smaller than tar. But >> there's no cpio on the fixit floppy....... >> >> And there's no ifconfig on the floppy either, so why even bother with >> telnet/ftp/mount_nfs? > > You need to also look at what's on the mfsroot floppy because they're > used in conjunction with one another. If you want a better fixit floppy, you should consider the new custom disk pair with PicoBSD (see picobsd(8) in -CURRENT). It includes everything on the old fixit floppy, also real tar and a number of other programs, including rsh. There's still space on there; what else could we put there? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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