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From: Bill Northlich <billn@onlive.com>
To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: booting question
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:04:17 -0800
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Hi,
The manual says that the FreeBSD root file system must be within the 
1st 504 mb. of the disk, else booting wont work (p. 27).  However, 
could I put it out on the end of the disk and boot from floppy every 
time?  Thanks,
/b