Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:07:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Hummel <HUMMDN36@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot from floppy only Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970401140600.3988B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01IH6XVILW8M9FOH0W@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU>
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On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Dave Hummel wrote: > I've found alot of messages about this in the archives, but I'm still rather > clueless on this... > I have a network machine that runs win95 during business hours and I want to > run FreeBSD on it. I do not want FreeBSD to be visible to the normal user, so I > want to make it bootable by floppy only. If I use disklabel to make a bootable > floppy I gather from what I read that I can tell the boot to look for the > kernel on the FreeBSD partition, which is a IDE harddrive that has been split > using fips. Would the proper syntax be boot: wd(0,a)/kernel > Would another (thew proper?) option be to put the kernel on the floppy and then > to mount the FreeBSD partition? You can't fit a decent system on a floppy. You can use the boot floppy and the auxiliary fixit floppy image to make a two-disk startup that will get you a few basics. Also check Handbook section 10.5.9.5 for making an emergency disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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