Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

On 12/07/12 23:11, Chuck Burns wrote:
> On 12/7/2012 3:50 PM, CeDeROM wrote:
>> Hello :-)
>>
>> I have tried to chceck for badblocks on my / but I did not find 
>> badblocks
>> program on LiveCD and there is no option to install it. This is very 
>> useful
>> utility, please add it as part of LiveCD :-)
>>
>> Also there is a problem with DHCP based workstations using LiveCD -
>> although interface gets configured it is impossible to update
>> /etc/resolv.conf (by dhclient and by hand) and so this workstation 
>> pretty
>> useless for IPv4 (is it more usable on IPv6?). Please update :-)
>>
>> Thank you :-)
>> Tomek
>>
>>
>
> dd if=/dev/zer of=/dev/ada0
>
> ^^^ There's your "badblocks" program.  Any hard drive made in the last 
> decade have been self-remapping..  Attempting to write to a bad block 
> will cause the hard drive to remap an unused sector into it's place, 
> until the drive runs out of said "unused" backup sectors, and at that 
> time, will begin simply begin just "losing" storage space... IE the 
> number of total sectors on the drive will begin to shrink.
>
:)

/dev/zero

Badblocks is outdated for more than 17 years I guess
The dd mentioned above will let the firmware remap all bad sectors until 
there are no spare sectors left (and wipe anything on disk as a bonus :) 
;then you can begin to think about replacing your harddrive.

As for DHCP, it works for me when booting from a netinstall for instance 
or going to fixit.
Tomek, please try to describe more accurately what you are doing and try 
to accomplish

Cheers

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