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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to make a fixit floppy ?
Date: 23 Jan 1997 12:00:52 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <5c7qth$gga@news-sop.inria.fr>,
Emmanuel Duros <eduros@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>According to the installation setup (FreeBSD 2.2-961006-SNAP)
>it is possible to create fixit floppy.
>However I have not found any documentation on this and I still have not
>figured out how to make one.
>Does anybody know how to do this ?
There's probably a "floppies" directory in the SNAP distribution. In
there, you'll find fixit.flp (if you can't find it, you can go to
ftp.freebsd.org, and go to /pub/FreeBSD/2.2-BETA/floppies). Then
stick a floppy disk into your drive and type
dd if=fixit.flp of=/dev/fd0
That'll do it.
rone
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