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From: vbettada@bechtel.com (Vivek Bettada)
Subject: Booting from floppy
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After installation, how do you set it to boot from a floppy and not
off the hard drive.  In other words, without installing the boot
manager or setting the BSD partition as the active partition (similar
to a simple boot floppy or LILO boot floppy in Linux).

Thx for any help,
Vivek