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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: neosoft.users.freebsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Free BSD trouble
Date: 30 Jan 1997 06:46:01 -0600
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By the way:

In article <5cpfsk$fqk@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote:
>So, how does one install a kernel, using a disc that is unuseable from any 
>operating system one currently has running?

You boot the "fixit" floppy and copy /mnt/kernel.bak to /mnt/kernel?
-- 

              The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.

    Reality is the stuff that's still there when you turn the video off.