From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 00:13:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA25607 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:13:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.enteract.com (qmailr@char-star.rdist.org [206.54.252.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA25602 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6751 invoked from network); 4 Apr 1997 08:13:13 -0000 Received: from enteract.com (mrfoine@206.54.252.1) by char-star.rdist.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 1997 08:13:13 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:13:13 -0600 (CST) From: Wayne Baety To: Doug White cc: Dave Hummel , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot from floppy only In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Dave Hummel wrote: > > > I've found alot of messages about this in the archives, but I'm still rather > > clueless on this... > > I have a network machine that runs win95 during business hours and I want to > > run FreeBSD on it. I do not want FreeBSD to be visible to the normal user, so I > > want to make it bootable by floppy only. If I use disklabel to make a bootable > > floppy I gather from what I read that I can tell the boot to look for the > > kernel on the FreeBSD partition, which is a IDE harddrive that has been split > > using fips. Would the proper syntax be boot: wd(0,a)/kernel > > Would another (thew proper?) option be to put the kernel on the floppy and then > > to mount the FreeBSD partition? > > You can't fit a decent system on a floppy. You can use the boot floppy > and the auxiliary fixit floppy image to make a two-disk startup that will > get you a few basics. Also check Handbook section 10.5.9.5 for making an > emergency disk. i think he just wants to use the floppy for the boot program so that he can switch the boot to a hard disk partition...and at the same tame keeping the hard disk partition hidden so that it doesnt display the F1 bsd F2 dos, etc. is that possible? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >