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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy ? Date: 6 May 1994 21:48:58 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qe6va$gb2@Germany.EU.net> References: <2qb5a3$of4@sophia.inria.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Keywords: FreeBSD Boot In article <2qb5a3$of4@sophia.inria.fr>, avega@pax.inria.fr (Andres Vega Garcia) writes: |> I've just recompiled a new kernel 386BSD (FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA) but |> I wonder how to test it safely. How about putting it in /newkernel, shutdown -r and on re-boot enter "/newkernel -s" ?! Or did I miss something vital ? -Bernard