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From: wardb@xplus.com.AU (Ward D. Britton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emergency Boot and Root floppies for FreeBSD ?
Date: 7 Sep 1995 03:54:40 GMT
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In article <42f74m$ru5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@bonnie.heep.sax.de 
says...

>[fixit floppy]
>
>>Question:
>>       Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 have a similar facility ?
>>       If so, what is it called and where can I get it ?
>
>There's half-cooked code for it in the `release' Makefile, and you can
>always utilize the `crunch' mechanism to compile all the required
>programs into one huge binary.

<SNIP SNIP>

Are there any plans to incorporate at 'Fixit' mechanism into the 
official RELEASE ?

If not, maybe we could get some discussion going as to the best way of 
impmenting this.


Best Regards,

wardb++