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From: Craig Stratton <craigs@brandcomms.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot and Root file system disks
Date: 24 May 1996 16:40:38 GMT
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Message-ID: <4o4oq6$33b@ns2.brandcomms.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo108.brandcomms.com

Hi, just a couple of q's.

How do i create a boot disk and root filesystem disk for my system 
now that i have it configured how i want it ?

Is there a command similar to 'mkdev fd' in SCO that allows you
to create these disks ?

Or is FreeBSD more flexible. ie if i boot from a standard boot disk,
can i just write everything back from tape to bring the system 
back to how it was pre-crash. (assuming a system/disk crash had
occured)

Regards, Craig.