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From: hrowe@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu (Harry Rowe)
Subject: Can you make a boot disk in FreeBSD (like Linux can)?
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Well, I plan to buy a second PC to be a dedicated FreeBSD box, but for now
it is installed on a slave hard drive on my current machine.  It appears
that you can not boot from a slave, so I need a boot disk until I can put
it in a computer where it will be the master.  Any suggestions?  Thanks!
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hrowe@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu | Harry Rowe | Finger for PGP Public Key

PS: All I have right now is the minimum install, because you seem to have
to boot from the HDD to finish the rest of the installation.  Maybe If i
type something at that first prompt on disk #1 i can boot from the HDD
(wd1).  Thanks again.