From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 3:47:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5770037B405 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.triad.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8764943E65 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joejop@triad.rr.com) Received: from 2kpro2 ([24.28.234.101]) by mail6.triad.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:47:08 -0400 Message-ID: <021c01c22cb6$3537baf0$2201a8c0@2kpro2> From: "Joe Joplin" To: Subject: Creating a FreeBSD boot floppy for a failed machine Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:47:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to create a boot floppy that I can use to boot a machine that has failed. Once I boot off the floppy I want to mount the hard drive(s) and move any data from the machine to another machine on the network. I tried searching for some information on how to do this, but I was overwhelmed with creating the installation floppies in my search. I did see the commands to boot FreeBSD after booting from a DOS floppy (nb8390.com and nb3c509.com.), but this will not give the support I need for all the different hardware. If anyone could lead me to some information on how to do this I would appreciate it. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message