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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:15:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Bill Northlich <billn@onlive.com>
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Subject: Re: booting question
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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Bill Northlich wrote:

> Hi,
> The manual says that the FreeBSD root file system must be within the 
> 1st 504 mb. of the disk, else booting wont work (p. 27).  However, 
> could I put it out on the end of the disk and boot from floppy every 
> time?  Thanks,

Yeah.

> /b
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."