Fixit floppy/CD

Henrik W Lund henrik.w.lund at broadpark.no
Wed Sep 22 12:45:45 PDT 2004


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


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