Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:43:09 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: so@server.i-clue.de Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How to Make a Boot Floppy? Message-ID: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9F7@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> In-Reply-To: <3B0518DB.E84FEB28@i-clue.de>
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Thank you. That worked! > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Sold [mailto:so@server.i-clue.de] > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 5:43 AM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: How to Make a Boot Floppy? > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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