Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:59:23 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making Bootable Disks Message-ID: <199608211559.AA038993163@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199608211519.LAA13504@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Aug 21, 96 11:19:26 am
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E-mail message from Dennis contained: > > > >If you're willing to blow the money on a second floppy, you can make > >a two floppy set (boot and root disks). > > The system has to boot without human intervention..... > > Can this be done automagically on a dual floppy system...if you cant squeeze > it into 1? How about installing a yet another floppy drive and having the root filesystem on the fd1? You can then use a normal kernel hardcoded for fd1 root. (these days a floppy drive doesn't cost significantly more than the media) /Marino > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD > and LINUX > >
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