From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 15:08:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA05564 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA05552 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA07820 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 13:04:40 -0700 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA22915; Tue, 28 May 1996 13:04:35 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 13:04:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: John Clark cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emergency boot floppy documentation In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960527180313.0030d2dc@felix.iupui.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 May 1996, John Clark wrote: > I am looking for documentation on creating an emergency boot floppy. It > seems to me that I read how to do this somewhere (thought it was in the > handbook). I have grep-ed the handbook, searched questions@freebsd.org, > man-k the manual pages, etc. but can find no info on creating an emergency > boot floppy. Please reply if you know where this info it located. About the closest thing tehreis is the "fixit" floppy. There is an image in /floppies and requires teh bot install disk to use. The boot disk is enough of a "emergency" disk since you can boot any freeBSD partition iwth it from the Boot: prompt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major