Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:28:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Pushor <timp@rnd.orion.ab.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating bootable floppy Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960828182537.233G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960828235538.19921A-100000@rnd.orion.ab.ca>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Tim Pushor wrote: > Does anybody know how to possibly create a bottable floppy? I need two > different ones, for different situations: Um, you probably don't want to build one yourself -- it involves building the whole system. What you want, it sounds like, is the 'fixit' floppy. YOu boot the standard boot.flp then select 'fixit' and shove the fixit floppy in. That gets you a good set of tools to unwedge your system. Another suggestion is to make a backup root on a second hard disk, if the system is using more than one. Then if one blows up you can use the Boot: prompt to point it to the second disk. Stash the utils you need on that root and you should be set. What do you need RPC for? NFS? I would assume you just need them to fix the system so it'll reboot properly, not drive one from the other. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSI.3.94.960828182537.233G-100000>