As Mark Newton wrote ... > dannyman wrote: > > > The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but > > it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p > > 1. boot single-user > 2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b > 3. reboot > 4. When boot1 gives you the 5-second paused baton, press any key > 5. enter "da(0,b)" at the Boot: prompt > > Us FreeBSD people can pretend we can do miniroot installs too :-)
Not completely. You also need a standalone 'disklabel' before you can use a factory fresh disk. Like SunOS 3.x etc used. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
