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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news13.agis.net!agis!newsgod1.agis.net!agis!news3.agis.net!agis!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.tue.nl!asterix.urc.tue.nl!rcjvdb From: rcjvdb@urc.tue.nl (Jan van den Bosch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 'fixit' diskette Date: 25 Nov 96 19:58:26 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 56 Message-ID: <rcjvdb.848951906@asterix.urc.tue.nl> References: <32987FBA.167E@math.tau.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: asterix.urc.tue.nl X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #10 (NOV) Pozin Shimon <pozin@math.tau.ac.il> writes: >Hello! >I asked this question a bit ago, but nobody answered: >How can I create a 'fixit' diskette for FreeBSD and what does it >include? >Thanks, >-- >Shimon Pozin >pozin@math.tau.ac.il There was an answer already from Juerg Wunsch on the same question: I include it hereafter. I'm looking for a possibility to 'crunch' with NetBSD,to put restore on the second fs floppy, anybody done that??? (I didn't found crunchgen on NetBSD, without crunching there is no room on it...). -Jan van den Bosch ---- from J.Wunsch: > - How could I manually install the kernel on a floppy? disklabel -Brw fd0 fd1440 newfs -t0 -u0 -l1 -i65536 /dev/rfd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt cp /kernel /mnt umount /mnt > - What commands are necessary to create a boot- and a root floppy? The boot floppy is above. The root floppy is initially basically the same, but you don't copy a kernel over to it. Instead, you create a regular file system, with the following minimal files on it: /bin/sh /sbin/init /dev/console plus everything else you'd like to see there. ``Crunching'' the binary is highly recommended. RTFM crunchgen(1) for this, and see also the files under /usr/src/release/. The provided fixit floppy is probably working well enough for most folks. Boot the installation floppy, select ``F)ixit'', and put the fixit floppy in. Note that this scenario is a little different from the ``classic'' boot/root floppy pair i've described above. -- cheers, J"org