From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 5 15:47:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DF21533B for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 111HW7-000KG6-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Jul 1999 00:47:15 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to delete /boot.config from kern.flp In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:46:39 +0200." <67304.931207599@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 00:47:15 +0200 Message-ID: <77877.931214835@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:46:39 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I'd really appreciate tips on how to remove boot.config from my > 3.2-RELEASE kernel floppy without having a physical UNIX machine > present. I can do remote fiddles to my heart's content. Hahaha! Hexedit from the ports tree is my friend. I guess I could have done this with Microsoft DEBUG, but I'm not sure that the Wintendo platform comes equipped with DEBUG -- and now I'll never know. :-) > So clearly, the medication I'm on is more groovy than I'd first > imagined. Apparently it's not as groovy as I imagined the second time around, since a one-byte change to kern.flp was all I needed. I don't think I'm ever going to try to install off anything other than CD's. This is brilliant. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message