Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:48:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, jjc@videotron.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i have a question Message-ID: <19990130134833.M8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901300304.WAA23276@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:04:41PM -0500 References: <19990130101250.T8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901300304.WAA23276@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 22:04:41 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote, >> On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 9:47:16 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: >>> I /think/ you should be able to get your boot floppy to load that >>> drive by default by modifying the 'boot.config' file on it, but I am >>> familiar with the procedure. See 'man 8 boot' for a start on that. >> >> I don't think so. The boot floppy doesn't contain a file system. > > It doesn't? Then why can I slap my boot floppy in the drive, type, > > # mount /dev/fd0c /mnt/floppy > > and then, > > # ls -l /mnt/floppy > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 24 1998 boot.config > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1030 Jul 24 1998 boot.help > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1303656 Jul 24 1998 kernel > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 24 1998 kernel.config > > Did I mislabel my disk? I'm 99% sure it's the right one... but I'm not > gonna restart my system to check it. ;) I stand corrected. Yes, something must have changed, and I didn't notice. In this case I assume you're also right about being able to change the boot.config file. According to my system, there are 11 blocks free on the floppy (this is 3.0-RELEASE). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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