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Creating an emergency boot floppy disk set

Testing your emergency boot floppy disk set

After you create your emergency boot floppy disk set, verify that you can boot from it and read from backups:

  1. Log in as root.

  2. Shut down the system by entering /etc/shutdown.

  3. At the prompt to reboot, insert your boot floppy disk in the floppy disk drive and press <Enter>.

  4. At the Boot: prompt, press <Enter> to boot from the floppy disk.

  5. When prompted, insert the root floppy disk and press <Enter>.

  6. When you see the system prompt, verify that you can access your floppy disk or tape drive; follow the steps in ``Reading backups''.

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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003