Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:16:20 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Making a boot floppy Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970220161319.19211H-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <330BF8B3.7358@u.washington.edu>
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Jason Wells wrote: > Here is what I have done. > fdformat -ted a new disk. > disklabel -ed the disk. > newfs -B the disk with out setting -s -b args. This puts the boot > blocks from /usr/mdec on the floppy right? In the Handbook there is a section on emergency recovery from tape backups that also happens to include a section on creating a bootable floppy. See section 10.5 Storage Devices 10.5.9 Tapes and backups 10.5.9.5 Emergency Restore Procedure This section even includes a script for creating and populating the diskette. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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