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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news From: cliftf@sanpete.et.byu.edu (Fred Clift) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: how to make a bsdi boot floppy? Date: 17 Oct 1995 20:54:02 GMT Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <CLIFTF.95Oct17145402@sanpete.et.byu.edu> Reply-To: fred@byu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: sanpete.et.byu.edu Ok, the 'boot' man page is pretty lame in at least one respect. I read it hoping to figure out how to make a boot floppy for my dual boot machine which has just be taken over by another unnamed operating system that assumes there are no other os's in the world... What do I find in the man page? 'Copy the installation disk and modify this file...'. While this is possible, what I really want to know is "what is necessary to produce a boot floppy from scratch, without just copying a working one?". Here is what I would try to do, hoping it would work... fdformat the disk, put a label on it with disksetup, newfs it, write a boot block with disksetup put a copy of the kernel and important stuff from /bin /etc /usr and anything else that seems important. Is this going to work? I started to do this but I kept getting write errors on fd0 -- I've got to figure that out first before I make the disk... Any help and/or suggestions would be appreciated... --> fred -- Fred Clift - cliftf@byu.edu Assistant Systems Manager CAEDM - BYU "Remember, if women don't find you handsom, they should at least find you handy." -- Red Green