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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: System Boot Disk ? Date: 19 Jan 1997 22:19:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5bu6ko$fa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5bs3c1$cd4@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34278 djay4177@ix.netcom.com (David Jackson) wrote: > How can I create a system bootdisk ( I preferr to error on the side of > caution),instead of using a bootmanager? TX DJJ If your only concern is to start the harddisk system, just use the default boot floppy. Type ``wd(0,a)/kernel'' at the prompt, so it will boot the harddisk. You could probably tweak the bootblocks under /sys/i386/boot/biosboot to default to your disk. Run `make all install' there, and install them on a floppy with `disklabel -B fd0'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)