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From: lmcerpr@lmc.ericsson.se (Eric Primeau)
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Subject: Boot from floppy
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Hi everyone,

As you know, I'm having problems booting from hard disk.
I am considering an alternative and I'd need your opinion.

After installation of FreeBSD 2.0.5, I have access to a shell
and I can type unix commands, etc.   (FreeBSD *is* there!)

Is it possible to create a floppy disk that I could boot from?
(The installation floppy works fine, except that unfortunately
the kernel on it goes straight into installation mode.)

So here are my 2 questions:

1) Is it possible to use my current installation floppy and
   somehow stop it before it goes into the installation menu
   yet remain in unix (which is already installed on my disk).

2) Is it possible to create a boot floppy? If yes, can you either
   refer me to a FAQ document explaining this or can you tell me
   how to:  format a floppy for unix, construct a "gzip cpio file"
   of the kernel, etc and so forth???

THANKS A MILLION!

/Eric    would-be-freebsd-user


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Eric PRIMEAU                     lmcerpr@lmc.ericsson.se
Software Engineer                (514) 738-8300  x2371
Ericsson Research Inc.           Montreal (Qc) Canada
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