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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:53:37 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, mi@aldan.algebra.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting After Install (was "speaking of 3.4...") 
Message-ID:  <8152.943476817@localhost>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:43:12 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911241117080.20674-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> 

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> After or during a successful install I think it would be "nice"
> to be able to put the kernel from kern.flp on the hard drive, 
> preferably without having to boot the installed system.  This
> would be especially useful when the install floppies have been customized
> to make it possible for them to work on particular hardware.

I'd have to make the user swap floppies again and it would also be
impossible to read the kern.flp kernel in on systems where the floppy
isn't actually usable from anything but the BIOS (most PCCARD or USB
floppy-using laptops, for example).

- Jordan


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