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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!mr.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Have DOS, OS/2...how to install BSD? HELP! Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 03:45:46 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <31BFF15A.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4pl35m$27i@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: MichaelGoe <michaelgoe@aol.com> MichaelGoe wrote: > hours of rework I wish to avoid. Is there a way I could load BSD onto the > E:(SCSI) drive and simply boot from a floppy? Yes. Simply install everything on sd0, don't even touch the wd0 or wd1 drives. Afterwards, boot the boot floppy again and say sd(0,a)/kernel at the boot: prompt to boot it. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project