Re: Is any documents about freebsd Fix-it CD (disc2)?

From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/04

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To: joshua yu <cigant@yahoo.com.cn>

    On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:46:22PM +0800, joshua yu wrote:

    > i found that there is a FIX-it CD with freebsd. but no documents found about it. is there any documents about it and tech me how to use it?
    > thanks for your help.

    The Fix-it CD (or floppy disk for that matter) is basically a self
    contained FreeBSD system-on-a-CD. When you boot it up, it leaves you
    in what is essentially a single user shell.

    Now, if you have plenty of unix knowledge this gives you everything
    you need in order to fix just about any problem (beyond hardware
    failure) that can prevent a system booting up to single user mode
    itself.

    Unfortunately, if you don't know your way around fsck(8), fdisk(8),
    bsdlabel(8), newfs(8), mount(8) and various other commands from
    section 8 of the manual, then you're not going to have a very pleasant
    experience with the Fix-it disk.

    Learn the nitty-gritty low-level parts of administering FreeBSD, and
    you'll get everything you need to use the Fix-it disk effectively.
    There's plenty of documentation on that sort of thing: from the
    handbook and the system manual pages to several published books and
    all manner of on-line resources.

            Cheers,

            Matthew 

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