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From: jack@lucy.claremont.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Floppy or Tape "mini"-boot ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.105538.1@lucy.claremont.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 18:55:38 GMT
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Hi,

I know this question has been asked before but I don't recall seeing
an answer.

Does anyone know how to create a bootable floppy or tape?  I would
prefer to know how to create a "mini"-boot (That is a minimum system
configuration --- just enough to get you into single user mode with
some basic functions [such as rm, cp, ed, vi(?), etc.]).  

I managed to thrash a system while playing around with Netinfo. 
Currently, the system will only boot to a single user mode and the
system disk is mounted as read only.  I think the problem is that
/etc/fstab does not have an entry for the system disk --- so the
system never gets into Netinfo ... 

I will probably configure another system as a server system so that I
can boot across the ethernet.  However, I do think that it would be
really nice to be able to boot from floppy into a standalone system. 
If people E-Mail me their responses I will post the results to the
Net.

---Jack

Jack Stewart        		Jack@Hmcvax 		  (Bitnet)
User Support Coordinator,       jack@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Internet)
Harvey Mudd College,            jack@134.173.4.32         (also Internet)
Claremont, Ca. 91711            714-621-8006


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