Subject: RE: Fw: Now what?
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/07/1999 17:45:07
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> I have however booted off floppy, and used
> incantations of chroot to get my machine up multiuser in similar
> circumstances..  Your best bet however would be a small scsi drive you could
> stuff root onto.

Or just build a kernel with `root on wd0a dump on wd0b' and boot
that from a floppy. I use this successfully on an i386 system that
has SCSI drives only, but no BIOS for the SCSI controller.

cjs
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