On 04:40:42 John Reynolds wrote:
>
> Is there a chapter of the Handbook that details how to use the "fixit"
> floppy?
>
I just recently had an "interesting" fixit experience as well.
Device entries are just part of it. I think a general outline of
the "fixit" environment is needed, together with a description of
how to handle some common tasks in the environment.
The Fixit environment is sufficiently bizarre that even a seasoned
UNIX pro will likely have trouble figuring things out. This is
complicated a little by there being three distinct Fixit environments
that vary wildly:
o Holographic Fixit shell,
o Fixit Diskette, and
o CD Fixit.
I'd like to see a "Fixit" section somewhere under "Advanced
Topics". It might have a couple of sentences about single user mode,
but mostly discuss Fixit environments.
It would deal with the three main environments. For each, outlining
o what gets mounted where,
o where your shell is chroot'ed to (if anywhere),
o what things are in the path and what they're capable of, and
o how to carry out some basic tasks
The example tasks might be:
o doing a disklabel/newfs
o installing boot blocks
o restoring a dump
o fixing an fstab
John's experiences would fit somewhere into this I'm sure.
I'd like to give something like this a go, unless there is already
material in place that I don't know about. Any suggestions about
topics that I've missed? Pointers to source materials?
See you,
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