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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting from floppy
Date: 2 Jul 1996 20:30:31 GMT
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aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote:

> >> is it possible to boot FreeBSD from floppy and mounting the hdd?
> 
> >Yes, it is.
> 
> Does anybody know how to ?

Boot: wd(0,a)/kernel

(Assuming you're using an IDE disk.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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