On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> Sigh.. I wanted to go, but I managed to screw up the laptop, and am trying to 
> re-install bits that got accidently removed. damn 6 boot floppys!!!

I like the fact that OpenBSD has single floppy boot disks, but another
cool trick is to copy bsd.rd to /.  bsd.rd is the ramdisk image for the
bootable CD.  It's nice to have after upgrade/reinstall too, because
even if / is unmountable, as long as bsd.rd is bootable, you have access
to a shell, ftp, fsck, mount, tar, rm, ls and such.  It doesn't take up
too much room either:

builder:~% ls -l /bsd*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4624328 Sep  4 19:58 /bsd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4624430 Sep  4 17:08 /bsd.old
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4242472 Sep  4 17:10 /bsd.rd

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