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To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How to make a floppy to boot a kernel on the hard disk? 
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From: John Robert LoVerso <john@loverso.southborough.ma.us>
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I've done this in the past (such as for 3.3-RELEASE) by taking the fixit
floppy image, mounting it, and adding a /boot.config file that has the single
line:

da(0,a)/boot/loader

I then just leave that floppy in the drive.

John


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