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Re: Booteasy and OS Boot Select...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jan 7 15:24:44 1997
To: Leonard Kimble Jr <lkimble@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jan 1997 13:24:48 EST."
<9701071824.AA03399@skippy.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 15:23:44 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I'm in the process of installing netbsd on a new machine. And I
> wanted to know if either bootmanager recommended (Booteasy or OS
> Boot Select) can be installed onto a floppy diskette.
It doesn't look like it.
> I'd like to be able to pop in a floppy disk in order to boot NetBSD.
> I'd like to leave my hard drives boot sequence intact.
Well, you can put in the install boot disk and enter "wd(0,a)/netbsd"
to boot off your hard disk, but that's inconvenient. Through some
fairly evil magic, I was able to make a floppy image which defaults to
booting off of the hard disk. To make a boot floppy, put a formatted
disk in your floppy drive and do:
cd /afs/sipb/project/netbsd/dev/bootdisk
dd if=image of=/dev/fd0a bs=18k
