From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jan 19 23:29:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cs.byu.edu (mail.cs.byu.edu [128.187.168.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428AF37B41C for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:29:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravel.cs.byu.edu (ravel.cs.byu.edu [128.187.175.88]) by mail.cs.byu.edu (8.11.2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0K7RS015473; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:27:28 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:29:40 -0700 (MST) From: Eric Snow To: Joan Schunck Cc: Subject: Re: can I use other floppies with picoBSD ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joan, Could you just copy the contents of the picoBSD floppy onto your hard drive and go from there? -eric On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Joan Schunck wrote: > > I have a data recovery issue I need to complete, and one way I have > thought of doing this is by taking the contents of (floppy X) that I have > and copying it onto my laptop hard drive. > > Unfortunately, my laptop has no OS on it, and my net connection is so slow > that I cannot load FreeBSD on it (and I have no CD). > > So, is it possible to boot off pico, mount the hard drive, then insert a > different floppy disk and copy that contents to the hard drive ? > > I tried this with the FIXIT disk, but I can't unmount the fixit disk > because the device is busy (of course) but if I don't unmount the fixit > disk, then how can I use (floppy X) ? > > So will that be possible with pico ? Also, if you know of a way to do > this in the FIXIT environment, that would be helpful as well :) > > thanks! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > -- ================================================================================ Eric W. Snow HTTP://www.ericsnow.org ================================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message