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From: azrael@chopin.postech.ac.kr (Kim Tae Hyoung)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to create a boot disk?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 02:20:56 GMT
Organization: POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
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imah@direct.ca wrote:
: I have the FreeBSD 2.1 on cd rom but I don't want to
: install it on my win95\win3.11+dos6.2 system until
: I know how to create a boot disk because I don't
: want boot manager on my system. Could some
: one please tell me how to create a boot disk
: or where I could get the information?
See FAQ.
It's some part is following :
If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find
that ``dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0'' or
``dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy'' works well, depending on
your hardware and operating system environment.
: Thanks,
: Irving Mah
: imah@direct.ca
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