From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 09:20:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA10555 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rnd.orion.ab.ca (rnd.orion.ab.ca [206.186.47.198]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10541 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (timp@localhost) by rnd.orion.ab.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19982 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:25:15 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:25:14 +0000 () From: Tim Pushor Reply-To: Tim Pushor To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Creating bootable floppy Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Does anybody know how to possibly create a bottable floppy? I need two different ones, for different situations: 1) Server with tape drive crashes - in this case I need a bootable floppy that I can use to relabel the disks, create the filesystems, and restore from backup. 2) Server w/o tape drive crashes - in this case, I need a custom bootable floppy with TCP/IP & RPC. In the case of 2, what would be the best is to create a ramdisk based file system (~10MB) to hold all required files. So I guess I am asking if anyone knows first how to create a bootable floppy, and next, how to boot a system from diskette, and possibly create a ramdisk based filesystem and unpack multiple floppies from it? Impossible? Tim --- Tim Pushor, Technical Director Phone: (403) 246-0826 Orion Technologies Inc. FAX: (403) 242-7380 timp@orion.ab.ca Pager: (403) 229-8722