Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:06:13 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Formatting FreeBSD Floppies. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.980108175138.17911A-100000@bb.cc.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <34B56A95.15FB7483@whistle.com>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > Formatting doesn't create the filesystem > it just does a low-level format. > you then need to do > disklabel -r /dev/rfd0 floppy3 > newfs /dev/rfd0a > THEN you can start writing stuff to the floppy. > however that's still a long way from a bootable floppy.. > Thanks, I figured out how to do it. fdformat fd0 disklabel -Brw fd0 floppy3 newfs fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt kzip /kernel.GENERIC cp /kernel.GENERIC.kz /mnt cp boot.help /mnt cp boot.config /mnt umount /mnt Now it just dies with 'init not found' 'panic: no init' -Chris
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