Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:21:41 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fixit.flp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990218161914.10811A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com>
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Needing some help on the fixit.flp. Just trying to be as prepared as I can and making rescue disks etc. I can't seem to get it to work, unless I am misunderstanding the purpose of the fixit. Here is what I assume... Fixit.flp should give you a boot with a few tools on it to repair a seriously damaged system.... Here is what I did. dd if=fixit.flp of=/dev/fd0 To create the thing. I mount that disk and it has some tools on it and a small tree of directories with different stuff tucked away inside. Looks perfect for arescue disk as far as tools go. Did the same thing with a boot.flp. So, I boot up with a boot.flp and select the "enter repair mode with cdrom/floppy" Then select. "use a floppy generated from the fixit image" Is this the point that I pop in the fixit.flp? The statement looks as if I am supposed to have generated some sort of kernel image with the fixit.flp. If I just toss my fixit.flp in there it dies out telling me to put a writable fixit disk into drive a: of the computer. And then locks up. I am obviously misunderstanding how to implement the fixit.flp. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have "The Complete FreeBSD" book and have also done exactly as stated in there. It doesn't seem like this should be such a problem, but for one reason or another, it has become one. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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