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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 11:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Jamie Howard <howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot floppy.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980502114515.9447A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980502101748.20537B-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu>

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get a regular floppy
format it
disklabel it
(that will add bootblocks, if not use th e-B option ot explicitly add
them)
newfs it
mount it
add one file, (boot.config) with "1:sd(0,a)/kernel" as the contents.
unmount it..
try it..

On Sat, 2 May 1998, Jamie Howard wrote:

> Hi, I'd like to create a FreeBSD boot floppy that will automatically start
> 1:sd(0,a)kernel (or whatever) at start up.  How can this be done?
> 
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