Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:27:45 +0300 (MSK) From: Antuan Avdioukhine <antuan@eltex.ru> To: George Morgan <gemorga2@vt.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single o dual diskette boot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990323162418.279B-100000@tyger.hq.eltex.ru> In-Reply-To: <199903231244.HAA05254@sable.cc.vt.edu>
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On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, George Morgan wrote: > > People! Is there any FAQ or "how-to" about producing single-floppy-boot > > disk for FreeBSD? Some info I'd found in mailing list archives, but it is > > about 3.x ELF kernel. > In either case you need to use a utillity to write a raw disk image to > a disk. I've seen it done with "dd" in UNIX and "rawrite.exe" or > "fdimage.exe" in DOS or Windows 95. In order to make a single > bootable disk in 3.1 or later (might be 3.0 also) you need a 2.88MB > floppy since that is the space required for the single disk floppy. > (that's why most people use two) Here are some steps: [...] > I think that's it. You can also check the FreeBSD handbook at > http://www.freebsd.org I thing I was not too clear to explain my problem... I know how to put an image to disk. ;-) Problem is how to _build_ floppy with my own kernel and environment? I. e. how to make valid kernel, how to learn it to ask next floppie and so forth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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