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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: installation procedure
Date: 13 Nov 1995 10:06:06 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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HCLA  Deepak Goel <hcla@earth.planet.net> wrote:
>I have an requirement in which I have to change the installation procedure.
>I want to initiate install by booting from a floppy diskette,  but want 
>to do a lot more before loading the kernel, itself.  Where can I find 
>more information about  this process.  Any public domain software I 
>can study?

That heavily depends on the kind of system you are using.

For FreeBSD, the stages are documented in the boot_i386(8) man page
(take care to get the current version, the version in FreeBSD 2.0.5
has been outdated), and in the ``memory usage'' section of the
handbook.
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]