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From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting from floppy
Date: 2 Jul 1996 00:09:59 -0500
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>scilailf@leonis.nus.sg (Lai L F) wrote:

>> is it possible to boot FreeBSD from floppy and mounting the hdd?

>Yes, it is.

Does anybody know how to ?  I have read the FAQ but did not see
any mention of it.  While we are at it, how does one re-install
Boot-Manager ?

Thanks.

Atif Khan
aak2@ra.msstate.edu