From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 10:23:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aesir.community.net (aesir.damerica.net [206.14.37.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276AF14D2E for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cornils@community.net) Received: from x (n112.pm3-2-sf.community.net [204.94.177.112]) by aesir.community.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA14732 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:21:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <01b501bf5f85$2df54100$5705fa0a@x> From: "Cal Cornils" To: Subject: Boot FreeBSD from a floppy? Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:20:17 -0800 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 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. I believe I've heard this is one of the options that's available when doing the installation, but wasn't sure. And that when it's done, I believe you can give at the boot: prompt something like wd(2,c)/kernel to give it directions to the BSD partition. Is this the way it works?? I can do this kind of a thing with RH Linux 5.2, but wanted to confirm that it's also an option with FreeBSD. Cal Cornils > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message