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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Boot Floppy?
To: alexandr@louie.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:04:11 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To:  <9609122258.aa13472@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> from "Jerry Alexandratos" at Sep 12, 96 06:58:15 pm
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Jerry Alexandratos wrote:
> 
> Can anyone out there please tell me how to make a bootable floppy disk
> for FBSD 2.1.5?
> 
> My guess is that I'm messing something up in either disklabel for newfs.
> But I'm not sure which one.  8(  (I'm familiar with how to disklabel and
> newfs a harddrive, but it doesn't seem to be working quite the same way
> for the floppy).

	take a look in the handbook section on "storage devices",
	"tapes and backups", "before the diaster"

	10.5.9.5 is hte sectio number

jmb