From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 16:34:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA19756 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com ([209.25.4.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19751 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:33:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA24160; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:16:21 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:16:20 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Jason Wells cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Making a boot floppy In-Reply-To: <330BF8B3.7358@u.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Jason Wells wrote: > Here is what I have done. > fdformat -ted a new disk. > disklabel -ed the disk. > newfs -B the disk with out setting -s -b args. This puts the boot > blocks from /usr/mdec on the floppy right? In the Handbook there is a section on emergency recovery from tape backups that also happens to include a section on creating a bootable floppy. See section 10.5 Storage Devices 10.5.9 Tapes and backups 10.5.9.5 Emergency Restore Procedure This section even includes a script for creating and populating the diskette. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82