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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 'fixit' diskette
Date: 25 Nov 1996 23:56:24 GMT
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Pozin Shimon <pozin@math.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> I asked this question a bit ago, but nobody answered:
> How can I create a 'fixit' diskette for FreeBSD and what does it
> include?
1) fdformat fd0; dd if=/cdrom/floppies/fixit.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=18k
(assuming you've got your FreeBSD CD-ROM mounted at /cdrom).
2) Well, perhaps not everything you'd like to see there. Simply
mount it (``mount /dev/fd0 /mnt''), and look around. Note that
the `expr' program on it is known to be broken (subtle problem
with the libgnuregex), so you might better want to put the
required /dev nodes to restore your system there in advance
(MAKEDEV doesn't work).
--
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. ;-)