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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
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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