From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 5:41:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6FF237B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 05:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id OAA10212; Fri, 18 May 2001 14:48:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3B0518DB.E84FEB28@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:43:07 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: How to Make a Boot Floppy? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Tomlinson schrieb: > > 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. boot singleuser, setenv editor=/bin/ed, disklabel. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message