Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 21:32:14 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Kenny Felton <kenny@kazan.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy boot Message-ID: <19990522213214.A1330@mad> In-Reply-To: <19990523091357.22759@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sun, May 23, 1999 at 09:13:57AM %2B1000 References: <BB1F90192A0AD311934F00A0CC26B9F60187AB@HENDRIX> <19990523091357.22759@welearn.com.au>
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On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 09:13:57AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:28:19PM -0500, Kenny Felton wrote: > > I am the newest of newbies and I'm trying to find out how to boot FreeBSD > > from a floppy. The handbook says I can load the kernel on a floppy and boot > > from it, but it doesn't say how. Is there any place I can look this up > > For example, if you sent the above question as is, you would likely get back: > > - how to find out about running PicoBSD [...] > - someone saying "That happened to me, my memory needed replacing" Hehe. Someone would surely point out /etc/disktab. Just to help a little here, there's a reason the handbook doesn't tell you how to put a kernel onto a floppy (there's always a reason for things like that! :). Have a look at the size of your kernel (ls -l /kernel) and then consider the size of your standard floppy. A kernel's not enough to boot from a floppy, either. In this case, what you might be trying to ask is, "How do I use a floppy to boot my FreeBSD 3.2R machine? I can't/won't install a boot manager or any other wierd funky things like booteasy onto my hdd, so I need to boot using a floppy." [Caveat: Of course, there's always the _slim_ chance that this is not what you are really asking... ;-] What you should also do is, rather than just saying "the handbook says I can put a kernel on a floppy", say "the handbook, section x.y, <http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/handbook/...> says I can put a kernel on a floppy". Readers can then quickly check and say "Oh, now I see what he's talking about...". Not only that, but some reader might even check the handbook reference and say "Hmm... I think I'll go and add my answer to his question to the handbook", thus saving future newbies even more trouble. :-) Anyways, this is more likely to get a useful answer, too (probably the eighth item from Sue's list and the /etc/disktab reference are what you want). > Once you've sorted out what your question is, send it to > freebsd-questions. If you need more help formulating it, you can get > that here, but get your answers from freebsd-questions only. Hopefully nothing in my email has helped answer your question in any possible way. ;-) -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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