From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 10:12:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17616 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:12:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU (SYSTEM@snybufaa.buffalostate.edu [136.183.34.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17608 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from BUFFALOSTATE.EDU by BUFFALOSTATE.EDU (PMDF V5.1-5 #18385) id <01IH6XVILVAS9FOH0W@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:18:08 EST Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 13:18:08 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Hummel Subject: boot from floppy only To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01IH6XVILW8M9FOH0W@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU> X-VMS-To: in%"questions@freebsd.org" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've found alot of messages about this in the archives, but I'm still rather clueless on this... I have a network machine that runs win95 during business hours and I want to run FreeBSD on it. I do not want FreeBSD to be visible to the normal user, so I want to make it bootable by floppy only. If I use disklabel to make a bootable floppy I gather from what I read that I can tell the boot to look for the kernel on the FreeBSD partition, which is a IDE harddrive that has been split using fips. Would the proper syntax be boot: wd(0,a)/kernel Would another (thew proper?) option be to put the kernel on the floppy and then to mount the FreeBSD partition? Thanks, Dave