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#! rnews 1434 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to boot/root from Floppy?? Date: 31 Oct 1995 19:13:53 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <475p11$17f@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <473kc3$2ib@hermes.jersey.net> <47444m$ade@hermes.jersey.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bil Herd <bherd@zeus.jersey.net> wrote: >How do you make a bootable floppy that uses a second floppy as the root? >The boot floppy I made from my 2.0.5 distribution (Walnut Creek) boots >straight into the install routine. The idea is that I should be able to >mount the hard disk image after booting from floppy and do any repair, etc. This is the so-called ``fixit'' floppy. It is supported in recent SNAPs (and therefore, will be in 2.1). Except for a few minor nits, you should be able to use this fixit floppy set (boot.flp plus fixit.flp) to recover a 2.0.5 system as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)