+-- "Jason D. Kelleher" kelleher@susq.com once said: | >Yes, you can do this from the 5.x floppies. The deal with snap | >restore was to make it 'easier' for people, although you still have to | >reboot the box (and you don't really physically need a floppy to do a | >'floppy boot'), so it seems to be a minor difference to me. Hoever, | ^^^^^^^^^^^ | | Didn't know that. I'll file it under "emergency things I hope I | never need to know". :)
I think someone on this list recently covered how to do this, but I'll do it again. (I'm doing this from memory, and believe I have it all right, but someone please correct me if there are any details missing/incorrect):
1. Halt the machine (and have a console on it).
2. The console will drop to the "ok" prompt. You need to set the 'floppy-boot?' PROM environment variable. To do this: 'setenv floppy-boot? true'
3. Type 'boot' at the console to boot the machine.
4. When the machine gets to the point of recognizing all of the disks, you'll get a prompt saying "Floppy Boot(y/n)?" (or something similar). Answer 'y'.
5. To get the box to not ask you about the floppy boot evertime after you've completed whatever you wanted to do from the floppy, either set the floppy-boot? environment variable to 'false' or use 'unsetenv' to remove it.
Oz