Emergency Boot Floppy construction

Phil Eschallier phil at lgnp1.LS.COM
Tue Jul 3 07:14:38 AEST 1990


In article <15030017 at hpfinote.HP.COM> jackb at hpfinote.HP.COM (Jack Benzel) writes:
>
>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

	actually you will want to try the following for creating a bootable
	floppy:

		"mkdev fd"

	read the man page for more info and restrictions ...


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