From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 11:31: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n66.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CEE14A2A for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gateway.gorean.org (gateway.gorean.org [10.0.0.1]) by dt011n66.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15368; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:30:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n66.san.rr.com To: Jaime Kikpole Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot to HD from floppy? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > Does anyone know how to make a floppy disk that is bootable but > then hands off the booting process to a FreeBSD installation on an > installed disk. If I could get booteasy (or another boot manager) onto a > floppy disk, that would be enough. Hmmmm.. OSBS might let you install on a floppy, not sure though. In any case it should be simple enough to take a standard boot floppy and put the assignment for the kernel on the hd in there in /boot.config, or something similar. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message