Fixit floppy/CD
Greetings, list! I've been reading about a fixit floppy that is supposed to exist somewhere, and a fixit CD too, but I can't for the life me find out anything more about them. Googling yields tons of references to inserting the fixit floppy/CD, but none as to how one goes about making them! There is always sysutils/livecd, I know, but I'm not looking for the ultimate in configurability, I just want something that will boot my machine and let me mess around (much like the Win98 boot diskette in days of old). When the port's homepage made references to an official version of LiveCD, I surfed the ftp servers but found nothing looking anything like it. Can anyone throw me a torch here? Thanks! -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixit floppy/CD
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:14:40PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: Greetings, list! I've been reading about a fixit floppy that is supposed to exist somewhere, and a fixit CD too, but I can't for the life me find out anything more about them. Googling yields tons of references to inserting the fixit floppy/CD, but none as to how one goes about making them! These certainly do exist -- generally you'ld just download some disk images and either copy them to floppy, or burn them to CD Rom: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html The fixit floppy can be found at eg. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE/floppies/ depending on the architecture and FreeBSD version you want. (Floppy images don't exist for all architecures). You can also find the floppy images in the /floppies directory of the Disk 1 iso-image, which is handy if you run into a CD drive you can't boot from. Similarly the ISO images you need are in eg.: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES/5.3/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.10/ Mutatis mutandis wrt. version numbers and architectures again. You want the disk2.iso, which is a standalone bootable image with a live file system on it. If you want to create your own versions of these things from source, you need a local copy of the FreeBSD source CVS repository, and you can use the 'make release' command -- see /usr/src/release/Makefile and other files under directory. That's not something for the faint of heart though. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgpC1gSYSlocm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Fixit floppy/CD
From backup basics in the handbook: Try looking in the floppies directory of your distribution for fixit.flp image. Gary Henrik W Lund wrote: Greetings, list! I've been reading about a fixit floppy that is supposed to exist somewhere, and a fixit CD too, but I can't for the life me find out anything more about them. Googling yields tons of references to inserting the fixit floppy/CD, but none as to how one goes about making them! There is always sysutils/livecd, I know, but I'm not looking for the ultimate in configurability, I just want something that will boot my machine and let me mess around (much like the Win98 boot diskette in days of old). When the port's homepage made references to an official version of LiveCD, I surfed the ftp servers but found nothing looking anything like it. Can anyone throw me a torch here? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixit floppy/CD
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:14:40PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: Greetings, list! I've been reading about a fixit floppy that is supposed to exist somewhere, and a fixit CD too, but I can't for the life me find out anything more about them. Googling yields tons of references to inserting the fixit floppy/CD, but none as to how one goes about making them! These certainly do exist -- generally you'ld just download some disk images and either copy them to floppy, or burn them to CD Rom: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html The fixit floppy can be found at eg. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE/floppies/ depending on the architecture and FreeBSD version you want. (Floppy images don't exist for all architecures). You can also find the floppy images in the /floppies directory of the Disk 1 iso-image, which is handy if you run into a CD drive you can't boot from. Similarly the ISO images you need are in eg.: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES/5.3/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.10/ Mutatis mutandis wrt. version numbers and architectures again. You want the disk2.iso, which is a standalone bootable image with a live file system on it. If you want to create your own versions of these things from source, you need a local copy of the FreeBSD source CVS repository, and you can use the 'make release' command -- see /usr/src/release/Makefile and other files under directory. That's not something for the faint of heart though. Cheers, Matthew Thanks! Another one of the FreeBSD mysteries unveiled. Hell, I'll be committing in no time!! (errr... or?) ;-) -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
