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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: 11 Sep 1995 03:26:08 GMT Organization: X + Open Systems Pty. Ltd. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <430a8g$2fc@kettle.magna.com.au> References: <426ief$5t8@kettle.magna.com.au> <42f74m$ru5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <42lqe0$gm5@kettle.magna.com.au> <42pa85$hda@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: xrated.xplus.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 In article <42pa85$hda@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@bonnie.heep.sax.de says... > >Ward D. Britton <wardb@xplus.com.AU> wrote: > >>>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 ? > >Plans are only one side of the coin -- people who are actually *doing* >it are the other one. > >So what shall i say: just do it. Use send-pr to send us a diff to the >Makefile or whatever is required... > >Meanwhile, i've uploaded a fixit.flp for 2.2-current (as of ~ Sep 20) as >ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/joerg-2.2-current-fixit.flp.gz. >(I hope i've got the name right offhand. If it fails, try some >permutations...) >-- Ok, I will start work on a fixit floppy creation procedure as well as the recovery procedure from boot floppy. BTW: You mention 2.2-current. Am I correct in reading this a release 2.2 ? (sorry if this is a FAQ) Does this mean that 2.1 has RELEASED yet ? Thanks, wardb++