Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:43:07 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to Make a Boot Floppy? Message-ID: <3B0518DB.E84FEB28@i-clue.de> References: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9F5@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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Drew Tomlinson schrieb: > > Can someone point me to a tutorial on creating a 4.3 boot floppy? > Specifically, I want to boot from a floppy and be able to run disklabel > from the same floppy to edit the partition table on my hard drive that > includes my /usr partition. I've tried doing this from a hard drive > boot, even from single user mode, but the problem is that disklabel uses > vi to edit the label. vi and it's required libraries are on /usr and I > can't edit the partition while it's mounted. And when it's not mounted, > disklabel doesn't work because vi doesn't work. > > Or if anyone has any better ideas, I'm all ears. boot singleuser, setenv editor=/bin/ed, disklabel. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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