From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 14:08:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05873 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:08:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA05866 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:08:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA04000; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:07:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:07:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Dave Hummel cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot from floppy only In-Reply-To: <01IH6XVILW8M9FOH0W@BUFFALOSTATE.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 Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Dave Hummel wrote: > 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? You can't fit a decent system on a floppy. You can use the boot floppy and the auxiliary fixit floppy image to make a two-disk startup that will get you a few basics. Also check Handbook section 10.5.9.5 for making an emergency disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major