Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:54:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Bailey <michaelb@well.com> To: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.ORG Subject: I want to always boot from floppy Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9706100956.A25738-0100000@well.com>
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Hi, just got freeBSD and am reading the book & docs files. (Background: I have spent 6 months & 1,000 or so getting to where I can boot and use Linux--a little. So this question doesn't seem to be in the book, but maybe I am just slow, but if you can toss off an answer & save me 6 months, who knows, maybe I can use that time to learn something where I can help somebody else someday) 1) I want to always boot off a floppy. 2) I want to use a 600MB partition on the 2nd hard drive (a 1.6 G IDE, thinking freeBSD 600M Linux 600 M Gnu Hurd 400M) 3) I would rather not have DOS on this drive: the 1st hard drive is a 1.2G IDE with Win95. so, in the book, it says I need to have freeBSD on my 1st drive, and if the CDRom is ATAPI, I have to jumper it to secondary master. Linux says my CDrom is hdc. Is all this stuff still true in 2.2, and does bootability of the disk matter if I only ever want to boot from floppy? (Linux let me make a boot floopy--different from the installation boot floppy) and I just use that. After sending this I will probably discover the answer right away. But I am still going to send it, because I wanted to let somebody know, that in addition to the mailing lists I signed up for, I seem to be also getting e-mail for "support @ cdrom .com" Now, don't get me wrong, I would love to be a part of the organization (I've seen a couple invitations for remote and local jobs: if I only had the qualifications I would be sending a resume. As a matter of fact, Would you like to lure me away from my position as a marketing representative with Sprint Local Telecom in the local circuits division?) But I digress. maybe the support line is diverted to each new lists-subscriber for an initiation. anyway, long live free software! thanks, Michael
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