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On 2003-07-22, andrew morton wrote:

Please learn how to use the Enter key -- long lines are a PITA.

Please ask beginner questions on the questions list -- that's
what it's for.

> Does FreeBSD still have to boot from a partition with-in the
> first 10GB?

This has not been the case for at least a trillion years.

> I might end up doing a dump across the network. What I'm
> unsure of is how to reverse the process and restore the
> system.

Try "man restore" and all will be clear.

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Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> <http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html>
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