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From: dgrace@mhv.net (Damon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDnewbie Q: making boot floppy to point to Jaz drive
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:44:15 GMT
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:52:09 GMT, mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or
Lee Cremeans ) wrote:

>dgrace@mhv.net (Damon) wrote:

>>My system has 2 IDE hard drives and a Jaz Drive (Scsi id #4) connected
>>to an Adaptec 1510 ISA SCSI card (no bios). 
>   There's your problem   :-)              ^^^^^^
>Lee C. 
Right- but thats why I am willing/want to use a boot disk. As per an
earlier response I tried fbsdboot but need to find some docs on having
fbsdboot point properly to the Jaz drive (which under install shows as
sd0).

So how do I make a boot disk to do this?