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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
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