From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 09:03:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01543 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eins.siemens.at (eins.siemens.at [193.81.246.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01534 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by eins.siemens.at (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA13794 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:02:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0utFk2-00021JC; Wed, 21 Aug 96 18:02 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA038993163; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:59:23 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199608211559.AA038993163@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: Making Bootable Disks To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:59:23 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608211519.LAA13504@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Aug 21, 96 11:19:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk E-mail message from Dennis contained: > > > >If you're willing to blow the money on a second floppy, you can make > >a two floppy set (boot and root disks). > > The system has to boot without human intervention..... > > Can this be done automagically on a dual floppy system...if you cant squeeze > it into 1? How about installing a yet another floppy drive and having the root filesystem on the fd1? You can then use a normal kernel hardcoded for fd1 root. (these days a floppy drive doesn't cost significantly more than the media) /Marino > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD > and LINUX > >