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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!kettle.magna.com.au!usenet From: wardb@xplus.com.AU (Ward D. Britton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Emergency Boot and Root floppies for FreeBSD ? Date: 1 Sep 1995 09:06:23 GMT Organization: X + Open Systems Pty. Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <426ief$5t8@kettle.magna.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: xrated.xplus.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 I am fairly green with FreeBSD, so please excuse me if this is a FAQ. ( BTW, I did do many grep's in the FAQ/Text/* dir to no avail.. :-( ) On SCO UNIX, they have a neat little system for making emergency boot and root floppies. So that armed with these floppies and a full (cpio) backup one can re-build the entire unix system from scratch, in a very short period of time. Question: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 have a similar facility ? If so, what is it called and where can I get it ? If not, then how about some input from the experts on the procedures to create a boot/root floppy set and outline the relevent command sequence/usage required to do a full restore. If this hasn't been done, then I can put this all in a little tcl script for others. best Regards, wardb++ -- Ward D. Britton Senior Consultant X + Open Systems Pty. Ltd. wardb@xplus.com.AU <DISCLAIMER> <COPYRIGHT>