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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot and Root file system disks Date: 26 May 1996 20:20:21 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4oaee5$hb@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4o4oq6$33b@ns2.brandcomms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4o4oq6$33b@ns2.brandcomms.com>, Craig Stratton <craigs@brandcomms.com> wrote: > >How do i create a boot disk and root filesystem disk for my system >now that i have it configured how i want it ? First of all, the 'root' disk is only required when installing FreeBSD. It's possible to make a boot disk, but not as straightforward as you might expect. >Or is FreeBSD more flexible. ie if i boot from a standard boot disk, >can i just write everything back from tape to bring the system >back to how it was pre-crash. (assuming a system/disk crash had >occured) You can boot off the installation disk and tell it to use the kernel on the hard disk at the boot prompt, eg boot: wd(0,a)/kernel to boot off the first IDE/EIDE hard disk. The "fixit floppy" is provided for emergency recovery. To create one, do something like dd if=/cdrom/floppies/fixit.flp of=/dev/fd0a bs=16384 To use it, select the "use fixit floppy" option in the installation. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk