From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 6:56: 5 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 59D6E37B406 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.macconnect.com (mail.macconnect.com [204.68.168.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F17DD44426 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmcalpine@macconnect.com) Received: (qmail 74167 invoked by uid 0); 16 Jul 2002 13:59:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.1.8?) (66.108.173.12) by mail.macconnect.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2002 13:59:53 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:52:31 -0400 Subject: Re: Creating a FreeBSD boot floppy for a failed machine From: Brendan McAlpine To: Joe Joplin , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <021c01c22cb6$3537baf0$2201a8c0@2kpro2> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 Chapter 5 of the handbook has step by step instructions on how to do this from a windows machine and a unix machine. Chapter 12 has the commands for booting into single user mode. Brendan > From: "Joe Joplin" > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:47:40 -0400 > To: > Subject: Creating a FreeBSD boot floppy for a failed machine > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message