From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 5:33:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2570D37B42C for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 05:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GDJ009016WRO4@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 18 May 2001 05:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigdaddy ([165.66.11.100]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GDJ00HLK6WRNU@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 18 May 2001 05:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 05:33:41 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: How to Make a Boot Floppy? To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone point me to a tutorial on creating a 4.3 boot floppy? Specifically, I want to boot from a floppy and be able to run disklabel from the same floppy to edit the partition table on my hard drive that includes my /usr partition. I've tried doing this from a hard drive boot, even from single user mode, but the problem is that disklabel uses vi to edit the label. vi and it's required libraries are on /usr and I can't edit the partition while it's mounted. And when it's not mounted, disklabel doesn't work because vi doesn't work. Or if anyone has any better ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message