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Date:      24 May 2003 11:05:54 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fixit disk without a floppy drive
Message-ID:  <448yswz8od.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C74172A-8D96-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org>
References:  <3C74172A-8D96-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org>

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Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes:

> I just encountered a situation where a system without a floppy drive
> failed with some disk corruption within files (not fsck issues).  In
> the process of trying to recover it, I found I needed to use the fixit
> disk.  I have used the floppy version successfully several times
> before, but this machine doesn't have a floppy drive.  Sysinstall
> indicated there was an equivallent fixit cd.  Where do you find that?
> I found a back door to get this machine corrected, but I need to be
> better prepared for the next failure.  FreeBSD 4.6.

Isn't that just the install disk?
"Fixit" is a menu option...



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