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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news-in.iadfw.net!usenet From: roycet@airmail.net (Royce Tidwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting from floppy Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 19:58:30 GMT Organization: INTERNET AMERICA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <555ncs$fsn@library.airnews.net> References: <E01KG6.20t@bechtel.com> Reply-To: roycet@airmail.net NNTP-Posting-Host: fw3-2.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99.81 vbettada@bechtel.com (Vivek Bettada) wrote: >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 As long as the boot order in your bios is set to check the floppy first, all you have to do is reboot with the floppy in the drive. Royce Tidwell