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From: Joan Schunck <jschunck@math.cudenver.edu>
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Subject: Re: can I use other floppies with picoBSD ?
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Do you mean that I can copy pico over to the hard drive, and then _boot_ 
off the hard drive - that is, a hard drive based pico implementation, thus 
allowing me to use the floppy disk ?

If so, that would work for me, but I have no idea how to do that.  Is this 
documented anywhere ?

thanks!


On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Eric Snow wrote:

> Joan,
> 
> Could you just copy the contents of the picoBSD floppy onto your hard 
> drive and go from there?
> 
> -eric
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Joan Schunck wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have a data recovery issue I need to complete, and one way I have 
> > thought of doing this is by taking the contents of (floppy X) that I have 
> > and copying it onto my laptop hard drive.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, my laptop has no OS on it, and my net connection is so slow 
> > that I cannot load FreeBSD on it (and I have no CD).
> > 
> > So, is it possible to boot off pico, mount the hard drive, then insert a 
> > different floppy disk and copy that contents to the hard drive ?
> > 
> > I tried this with the FIXIT disk, but I can't unmount the fixit disk 
> > because the device is busy (of course) but if I don't unmount the fixit 
> > disk, then how can I use (floppy X) ?
> > 
> > So will that be possible with pico ?  Also, if you know of a way to do 
> > this in the FIXIT environment, that would be helpful as well :)
> > 
> > thanks!
> > 
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