Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:46:35 -0700 (MST) From: Joan Schunck <jschunck@math.cudenver.edu> To: Eric Snow <ewsnow@cs.byu.edu> Cc: <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can I use other floppies with picoBSD ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201201345100.30429-100000@math.cudenver.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201200028590.15240-100000@ravel.cs.byu.edu>
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Do you mean that I can copy pico over to the hard drive, and then _boot_ off the hard drive - that is, a hard drive based pico implementation, thus allowing me to use the floppy disk ? If so, that would work for me, but I have no idea how to do that. Is this documented anywhere ? thanks! On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Eric Snow wrote: > Joan, > > Could you just copy the contents of the picoBSD floppy onto your hard > drive and go from there? > > -eric > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Joan Schunck wrote: > > > > > I have a data recovery issue I need to complete, and one way I have > > thought of doing this is by taking the contents of (floppy X) that I have > > and copying it onto my laptop hard drive. > > > > Unfortunately, my laptop has no OS on it, and my net connection is so slow > > that I cannot load FreeBSD on it (and I have no CD). > > > > So, is it possible to boot off pico, mount the hard drive, then insert a > > different floppy disk and copy that contents to the hard drive ? > > > > I tried this with the FIXIT disk, but I can't unmount the fixit disk > > because the device is busy (of course) but if I don't unmount the fixit > > disk, then how can I use (floppy X) ? > > > > So will that be possible with pico ? Also, if you know of a way to do > > this in the FIXIT environment, that would be helpful as well :) > > > > thanks! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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