Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:51:16 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: "Alfred R. Collins" <collinar@aramco.com.sa>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot BSD from floppy. Message-ID: <19980108235116.3376.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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Went to the questions archive looked up the word boot here is the reply: "In principle you can boot a floppy (like the installation floppy) and give it the location of the kernel at the boot: prompt. The syntax depends on the version of FreeBSD, but should be something like wd(1,a)/kernel I'm not sure about the syntax, but it gives a small example when it presents the prompt..." - Brought to you by Mr. Nadav Eiron and the mailing list search engine :-) Rudy ---"Alfred R. Collins" <collinar@aramco.com.sa> wrote: > > This questions wasn't covered in your faqs. > I don't want to boot BSD from my hard disk. > I want to boot it from a floppy boot disk. > How do I do this? > Thanks. > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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