From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 24 23:52:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (tk2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363A414D0D for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 23:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from henkvand@es.co.nz) Received: from p24-max7.chc.ihug.co.nz (p24-max7.chc.ihug.co.nz [209.77.128.152]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03695 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 18:50:49 +1200 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:52:00 +1200 (NZST) From: henk van der knaap X-Sender: henkvand@henk To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:Making a rescue boot 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 Dear Readers, I do apologize for asking the same question two times. But due to an accident I lost a lot of my mail, so I would like to post the same question again. I am trying to make a rescue floppy for my FreeBSD 3.1 system. I have been using the guidelines in the FreeBSD handbook. I used the example script as given for creating a bootable floppy. --------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # # create a restore floppy # # format the floppy # PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin fdformat -q fd0 if [ $? -ne 0 ] then echo "Bad floppy, please use a new one" exit 1 fi # place boot blocks on the floppy # disklabel -w -B -b /usr/mdec/fdboot -s /usr/mdec/bootfd /dev/rfd0c fd1440 # # newfs the one and only partition # newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -c 40 -i 5120 -m 5 -o space /dev/rfd0a etc. etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have problems with the following line: disklabel -w -B -b /usr/mdec/fdboot -s /usr/mdec/bootfd /dev/rfd0c fd1440 I do not exactly understand what it means. I get an error messages that /usr/medec/fdboot cannot be found. What is fdboot or bootfd? Could somebody please tell me what is going on here?? Many thanks. Henk Henk van der Knaap, 92 Halswell Junction Road, Christchurch, New Zealand. Phone/fax 64 3 3229185 Operating system is FreeBSD 3.1 =================================================== My e-mail address is as follows: henkvand@es.co.nz =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message