From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 18:28:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA28662 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28653 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00276; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:28:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Tim Pushor cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating bootable floppy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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