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From: jcm@mtune.ATT.COM (John McMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: yet another UNIXpc HD tale
Message-ID: <534@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 May 90 22:05:59 GMT
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <4627@cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
>In article <WJC.90May3175246@hoswjc.ho5cad.ATT.COM> wjc@hos1cad.att.com (Bill Carpenter) writes:
>>If I do a boot from "floppy boot" and do the trick to get a shell
>>prompt, I have no trouble mounting and unmounting the hard drive on
>>/mnt.  In fact, when it is mounted, I can read and write whatever I
>>please from it.  Yes, friends, I have the full power of UNIX at my
>>disposal :-).
>
>	In that case, you might try the "Hard Disk Boot" floppy; this
>	boots & loads a kernel from the floppy disk, but uses the hard
>	disk as the root filesystem; this way your floppy drive is avaliable
>	for backups, etc.
>-- 
> Marc Mengel					mmengel@cuuxb.att.com

This works best if you are running identical kernel to that on 
Hard Disk Boot [HDB] floppy.
=    =    =

If NOT, use other system to make a matching one if possible:
		{insert floppy}
	fdfmt10.sl
	mount /dev/fp021 /mnt
	cp {whateveryourunixis} /mnt/unix
	dismount -f
		You now have an HDB floppy that matches your /unix so
		the Loadable drivers et al can merrily flog along.

Who cares?

john mcmillan -- jcm@mtune.att.com -- muttering for self, only