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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emergency Boot and Root floppies for FreeBSD ?
Date: 4 Sep 1995 17:48:38 +0200
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Ward D. Britton <wardb@xplus.com.AU> wrote:
[fixit floppy]
>Question:
> Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 have a similar facility ?
> If so, what is it called and where can I get it ?
There's half-cooked code for it in the `release' Makefile, and you can
always utilize the `crunch' mechanism to compile all the required
programs into one huge binary. I forgot where exactly crunch resides
in the file system, but at least, there's an example configuration
file for a fixit floppy around. You apparently need to include
init(8) into it, and you might or might not want to stick a kernel
onto the same floppy. If you decide to put the kernel onto a
different floppy, simply change the media after the kernel has been
loaded, but before the root file system will be mounted. (If you are
cautious, boot with -c, and type the `quit' from UserConfig only after
changing the media first.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)