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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING
To: tcooper1@telusplanet.net (Terry Cooper)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:34:03 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <004901c27947$f71829b0$fb69cecd@donatev49iknkl> from "Terry Cooper" at Oct 21, 2002 02:22:31 PM
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> 
> Ok, I'm frustrated out. Do people actually use this script because the only
> one I find is the the one referenced from freebsd.org.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html
> #AEN14848
> 
> I cut and paste this script into a file in windows and then did a fetch from
> my server. When my script run's into the EOM command I get problems. I am
> running sh shell I think.
> 
> cat << EOM
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 4.62 and EOM is just putting everything into one file. I
> retyped everything and getting the same problem. So I don't know if it's
> hidden characters or not. Is there a place to fetch this file!!!!! Because
> I'm going crazy.

I am not sure what all else is happening, but EOM here 
is not exactly a command.

The sequence:

  cat > /mnt/etc/fstab <<EOM
  /dev/fd0a    /    ufs    rw  1  1
EOM

Tells it to cat the following lines up until the EOM in to
the file names /mnt/etc/fstab

Namely, it puts the line
    /dev/fd0a    /    ufs    rw  1  1

in to that file.
It is making a mini /etc/fstab file with the /dev/fdoa entry.

You may need to put other/more stuff in it.

The other ones are similar, but different stuff to different
files - the passwd and master.passwd files.

////jerry

> 
> Also is this bootable floppy suppose to let me see something because so far
> all I get is a no /boot/loader.
> 
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