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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!kettle.magna.com.au!usenet From: wardb@xplus.com.AU (Ward D. Britton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Emergency Boot and Root floppies for FreeBSD ? Date: 7 Sep 1995 03:54:40 GMT Organization: X + Open Systems Pty. Ltd. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <42lqe0$gm5@kettle.magna.com.au> References: <426ief$5t8@kettle.magna.com.au> <42f74m$ru5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: xrated.xplus.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 In article <42f74m$ru5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@bonnie.heep.sax.de says... >[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. <SNIP SNIP> Are there any plans to incorporate at 'Fixit' mechanism into the official RELEASE ? If not, maybe we could get some discussion going as to the best way of impmenting this. Best Regards, wardb++