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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!newssvr.cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: emergency recovery floppy? Date: 15 Mar 1996 22:25:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4icqos$187@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DoAGy2.30J@alisa.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford) writes: > > I've got FreeBSD 2.1 up and running and was wondering how to make an > emergency boot floppy? Make a copy of the /floppies/fixit.flp (use dd(1) for it), and keep this floppy and the installation boot floppy around. In case you need it, boot the installation floppy (with -c, if required), select the F)ixit option from the main menu, and insert the other floppy. Be careful, if the machine crashes while the fixit floppy is mounted, you gotta fsck the floppy again. Alas, sysinstall doesn't do this for you right now. Either keep a second copy around, or if you do also have DOS, you might copy it from the CD again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)