From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 7:43:20 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 54A0F37B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 07:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GDJ00N01CWJUE@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 18 May 2001 07:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigdaddy ([165.66.11.100]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GDJ00MLTCWIYT@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 18 May 2001 07:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:43:09 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: How to Make a Boot Floppy? In-reply-to: <3B0518DB.E84FEB28@i-clue.de> To: so@server.i-clue.de Cc: "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="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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