Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 02:54:31 -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.4.33.0201220138390.24611-100000@ravel.cs.byu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201201345100.30429-100000@math.cudenver.edu>
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Joan, Well, it's not as easy as just copying it over. You will need to format the hard drive for FreeBSD, and reconfigure PicoBSD to be able to mount the hard drive, all before you can copy the files over. You may be better off installing FreeBSD straight off and using the minimal installation to cut down on download time. If you do go for PicoBSD still, I would recommednd you take a look at a pretty good FAQ for pico. It's by Bruce Montague and it's found at: http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/pico_notes.htm I don't claim to be an expert on PicoBSD, but it looks like you would have to - format the hard disk (maybe using the FreeBSD install disk) if it's not formatted already for FreeBSD, - make sure Pico is set up for hard disk use, with drivers and such, - mount the hard drive, - copy the files over. -eric On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Joan Schunck wrote: > > Do you mean that I can copy pico over to the hard drive, and then _boot_ > off the hard drive - that is, a hard drive based pico implementation, thus > allowing me to use the floppy disk ? > > If so, that would work for me, but I have no idea how to do that. Is this > documented anywhere ? > i> thanks! > > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Eric Snow wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > 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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