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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!jagalchi.cc.pusan.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to create a boot disk? Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:29:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4gb4ku$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3120800f.4582116@news.direct.ca> <4frgu8$blb@xpat.postech.ac.kr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 azrael@chopin.postech.ac.kr (Kim Tae Hyoung) writes: > : Could some > : one please tell me how to create a boot disk > : or where I could get the information? > If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find > that ``dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0'' or > ``dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy'' works well, depending on > your hardware and operating system environment. Well, if you only need a boot floppy from where you can boot the system on the hard disk, all you need is the bootblocks: disklabel -B -r fd0 fd1440 -- 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. ;-)