Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!jackb From: jackb@hpfinote.HP.COM (Jack Benzel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Emergency Boot Floppy construction Message-ID: <15030017@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 28 Jun 90 13:29:51 GMT References: <15030016@hpfinote.HP.COM> Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 15 Thanks for the responses shown below! I too almost never found this passage. It is in the System Administrators Guide under "Using Floppy Disks and Tape Drives". Good luck. --------------------------------------------------------------------- jfrench@cs.tamu.edu Jeff French "Gig-Em Aggies" --------------------------------------------------------------------- I think ``mkdev floppy'' does the trick. It creates a single-floppy file system, with some (not all!) necessary programs. You'll have to scan it, and see if all's there, cat, ls, rm, etc. etc. Rob van Leeuwen