From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 13:37:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8449F14A00 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:37:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.154.31]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FOG6QZ00.FSE; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:37:47 -0700 Message-ID: <008701bf606a$1b3018c0$1f9ac5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Cal Cornils" , Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD from a floppy? Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:17:27 -0700 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 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Cal Cornils To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, January 15, 2000 11:23 AM Subject: Boot FreeBSD from a floppy? > Can I install FreeBSD 3.2 so that it's bootable from a floppy?? I'd > like to put it in a new partition on my Win PC separate (or course) from > all others, and would rather not try to fool around with the MBR, boot > sectors, and such for startup. If you go to http://www.freebsd.org and search the `questions' mailing list, you'll find this very topic answered a few days ago. Ask for the search results to be sorted by "date" and you should be booting off the floppy within the hour. ;^) -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message