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From: "Alejandro Vazquez C." <avazquez@vianet.com.mx>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to create a boot disk?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:15:46 -0600
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imah@direct.ca wrote:

> I know how to create a boot disk because I don't
> want boot manager on my system.  Could some
> one please tell me how to create a boot disk
> or where I could get the information?

  The choise is up to you if the boot manager gets installed or not.
 You don't need to create a boot disk since you can do fdisk to change
 the active partition (to select the active partion on FreeBSD you'll
 have to run "fdisk -a" as root).