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From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Emergency diskette for use with DAT drive
Organization: private FreeBSD site
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 20:45:08 GMT
Message-ID: <Cx0HnM.C9w@luva.stgt.sub.org>
Reply-To: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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I'm posting this for Vax (vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu). He asked me
to do so when I wrote to him about an "emergency diskette" for
use with a DAT drive (tape drive). This diskette should be able
to boot a *BSD system and restore (perhaps even rebuild) the
whole system.

Please answer via email to him as he's not able to read news
at the moment (his news system is broken). Reply-To is set.

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I am interested in building a "makefile" for NetBSD-1.0B and/or
FreeBSD, if you would like to work on such a project, or have ideas
on how to do it, please reply.
There is some work in NetBSD-1.0B's /sys/arch/i386/floppy on such a thing.
However, it is not quite complete enough.
[...]
I want a tree-branch, like /usr/src, where you can say "make install"
and it will make a whole fixit disk on /dev/fd0a or whatever.

Here's an ls -R (it's what is handy)
.
./bin
./bin/cat
./bin/sh
./bin/sync
./bin/mkdir
./bin/df
./bin/ln
./bin/mt
./bin/cp
./bin/rm
./bin/chmod
./dev
./dev/MAKEDEV
./dev/console
./dev/drum
./dev/kmem
./dev/mem
./dev/null
./dev/zero
./dev/tty
./dev/klog
./dev/ptyp0
./dev/fd0a
./dev/fd0b
./dev/fd0c
./dev/fd0d
./dev/fd0e
./dev/fd0f
./dev/fd0g
./dev/fd0h
./dev/rfd0a
./dev/rfd0b
./dev/rfd0c
./dev/rfd0d
./dev/rfd0e
./dev/rfd0f
./dev/rfd0g
./dev/rfd0h
./dev/sd0a
./dev/sd0b
./dev/sd0c
./dev/sd0d
./dev/sd0e
./dev/sd0f
./dev/sd0g
./dev/sd0h
./dev/rsd0a
./dev/rsd0b
./dev/rsd0c
./dev/rsd0d
./dev/rsd0e
./dev/rsd0f
./dev/rsd0g
./dev/rsd0h
./dev/tty00
./dev/ttyp0
./dev/ttyp1
./dev/ptyp1
./dev/ttyp2
./dev/ptyp2
./dev/ttyp3
./dev/ptyp3
./dev/ttyp4
./dev/ptyp4
./dev/ttyp5
./dev/ptyp5
./dev/ttyp6
./dev/ptyp6
./dev/ttyp7
./dev/ptyp7
./dev/ttyp8
./dev/ptyp8
./dev/ttyp9
./dev/ttypa
./dev/ttypb
./dev/ttypc
./dev/ttypd
./dev/ttype
./dev/ttypf
./dev/st0
./dev/nst0
./dev/rst0
./dev/nrst0
./dev/lkm
./etc
./etc/disktab
./etc/pwd.db
./etc/passwd
./etc/master.passwd
./etc/spwd.db
./etc/group
./etc/nologin
./kern
./mnt
./sbin
./sbin/init
./sbin/mount
./sbin/newfs
./sbin/disklabel
./sbin/reboot
./sbin/restore
./sbin/fdisk
./sbin/fsck
./usr
./usr/mdec
./usr/mdec/bootsd
./usr/mdec/bootwd
./usr/mdec/sdboot
./usr/mdec/wdboot
./usr/mdec/bootfd
./usr/mdec/fdboot
./usr/bin
./usr/bin/vi
./usr/share
./usr/share/misc
./usr/share/misc/termcap
./tmp
./var
./var/tmp
./.profile
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I tried to build such a diskette for FreeBSD-1.0.2 but the files
don't fit on one 3.5" diskette :-(
(I did use the full functionality files for the try).

-Michael
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Michael Giegerich             | migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de
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