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From: rdong@mat.jhu.edu (Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~})
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tpqic02: LAST call for help
Date: 11 Dec 95 19:35:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University.
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Message-ID: <RDONG.95Dec11113515@chow.mat.jhu.edu>
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In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 10 Dec 1995 16:41:17 GMT
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>>>>> On 10 Dec 1995 16:41:17 GMT, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said:
j> Your problem seems to have been answered. Anyway, all you need for
j> FreeBSD are two floppies (the ``Fixit'' approach). You could then
j> mount your Linux partition, and backup your files.
j> Dynamic device configuration is supported by booting with the -c
j> option.
j> Since ext2fs support is part of the -current code, you need the (not
j> yet published) boot and fixit floppies from -current; the 2.1 ones
j> aren't much helpful for you.
Thanks for the information. It would have saved me a lot of headache
trying to mount ext2 if I saw this earlier. Can someone help me get the
new floppies?
Last Friday, I got FreeBSD 2.10 floppies and went into the fixit shell.
After changing some parameters, mt fsf seemed to work well. (It would exit
on error under Linux after a lot of screaming.) However mt status crashed
saying / file system full. (The fixit disk doesn't seem to be mounted in
the RAM -- need a writable floppy and the read is very slow.)
I am yet to locate the tar binary and find a way to add it to the fixit
disk. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} 2760 Kelvin Ave., #3211
rdong@printrak.com Irvine, CA 92714
(714)752-0855(H)