Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:29:40 -0700 (MST) From: Eric Snow <ewsnow@cs.byu.edu> To: Joan Schunck <jschunck@math.cudenver.edu> Cc: <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can I use other floppies with picoBSD ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201200028590.15240-100000@ravel.cs.byu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201191523590.13709-100000@math.cudenver.edu>
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Joan, Could you just copy the contents of the picoBSD floppy onto your hard drive and go from there? -eric On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Joan Schunck wrote: > > I have a data recovery issue I need to complete, and one way I have > thought of doing this is by taking the contents of (floppy X) that I have > and copying it onto my laptop hard drive. > > Unfortunately, my laptop has no OS on it, and my net connection is so slow > that I cannot load FreeBSD on it (and I have no CD). > > So, is it possible to boot off pico, mount the hard drive, then insert a > different floppy disk and copy that contents to the hard drive ? > > I tried this with the FIXIT disk, but I can't unmount the fixit disk > because the device is busy (of course) but if I don't unmount the fixit > disk, then how can I use (floppy X) ? > > So will that be possible with pico ? Also, if you know of a way to do > this in the FIXIT environment, that would be helpful as well :) > > thanks! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > -- ================================================================================ Eric W. Snow <ewsnow@ericsnow.org> <ewsnow@cs.byu.edu> HTTP://www.ericsnow.org ================================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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