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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Going from Linux to FreeBSD Date: 30 Aug 1995 11:07:23 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <421gpb$8kv@reason.cdrom.com> References: <DE1BG0.9Eu@iquest.net> <41uh18$234@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:41uh18$234@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >The fixit floppy is not yet back up again for public consumption. >Maybe Jordan will jump in and report about its current status. I can >see a target `fixit.flp' in the Makefile for building a release, but >since he's never been announcing one i suspect there are still >problems to solve in this field. Well, basically when we went to the gzipped kernel + MFS approach for the boot, the fixit floppy crunchfile overflowed the available MFS space and died. It takes some tuning to fit things in the new scheme, and rather than go back and do that I was actually just going to make the boot floppy also function as a fixit floppy. The new sysinstall already gives you a shell option from the very first menu, and you can also use it to fsck, mount and inspect an existing filesystem. I've made the whole thing a lot more granular than it was! Jordan