Re: Bootonly CDROM utilities

From: Dan Strick <strick_at_covad.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:52:57 -0800 (PST)
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:25, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>>
> If we're going to have a bootable CD-R in the distribution, it might be
> useful/handy to have ancilliary utilities on that disc, to do partition
> mangling (etc) as well.   There's plenty of space now, at least.  ;-)
>>

An then Arjan van Leeuwen responded:
>>
> Isn't that what fixit (cd 2) is for?
>>

Yes, but it would be so very very convenient if it were a single CD
that booted the GENERIC kernel and came up in single user or some such
state.  The sysinstall fixit option is rather clumsy.

For example, after installing WinXP I often want to reinstall the FreeBSD
boot0 program in the MBR.  I can do that via sysinstall but for various
reasons much prefer to use the boot0cfg program.

Why not make the live file system CD (i.e. ...disc2.iso, the fixit CD)
bootable?  It could serve both purposes.

Dan Strick
strick_at_covad.net
Received on Sat Feb 28 2004 - 09:53:01 UTC

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