Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:25:14 +0000 () From: Tim Pushor <timp@rnd.orion.ab.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Creating bootable floppy Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960828235538.19921A-100000@rnd.orion.ab.ca>
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Hello, Does anybody know how to possibly create a bottable floppy? I need two different ones, for different situations: 1) Server with tape drive crashes - in this case I need a bootable floppy that I can use to relabel the disks, create the filesystems, and restore from backup. 2) Server w/o tape drive crashes - in this case, I need a custom bootable floppy with TCP/IP & RPC. In the case of 2, what would be the best is to create a ramdisk based file system (~10MB) to hold all required files. So I guess I am asking if anyone knows first how to create a bootable floppy, and next, how to boot a system from diskette, and possibly create a ramdisk based filesystem and unpack multiple floppies from it? Impossible? Tim --- Tim Pushor, Technical Director Phone: (403) 246-0826 Orion Technologies Inc. FAX: (403) 242-7380 timp@orion.ab.ca Pager: (403) 229-8722
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