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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: neosoft.users.freebsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free BSD trouble Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 23:55:13 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5crcho$6tt@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32EAF919.17A0@neosoft.com> <5cflae$gal@bonkers.taronga.com> <5cpfsk$fqk@uuneo.neosoft.com> <5cq569$i8f@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.233 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34763 In article <5cq569$i8f@bonkers.taronga.com>, peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: >By the way: > >In article <5cpfsk$fqk@uuneo.neosoft.com>, >Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: >>So, how does one install a kernel, using a disc that is unuseable from any >>operating system one currently has running? > >You boot the "fixit" floppy and copy /mnt/kernel.bak to /mnt/kernel? Hmmm. Hadn't thought of trying that. Believe me, in the desperate state I was in the other day I was trying everything I could think of. The fixit floppy is practically undocumented, though. And then, when I mounted the drive and saw how much was gone, I began to despair altogether. I may still give it a shot, but not right away. It was pretty depressing losing so much of my root slice just like *that*. I need a break from it all for a while. Gonna enjoy some hassle-free computing for a while (I hope). Probably will get back to it eventually. I had really gotten the taste for tinkering with this stuff. Shame on me for having no backups (no tape drive, hate doing floppy backups). If and when I do undertake this thing again, and get a decent working setup (with custom kernel, that is), I will most definitely investigate how to create a bootable floppy with a kernel that sees my CD-ROM. Should have done that long ago. Conrad, on hiatus P.S. I certainly hope none of the FreeBSD project team took any offense at anything I said. I'm really not blaming anyone but myself (well, maybe the XFree86 people :-).