From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 09:50:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18087 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18080 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA15715; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:54:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:54:06 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: "Foster, Jim" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Getting to Stable and boot floppies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please don't cc to multiple lists, especially ones you aren't subscribed to. Anyhow... I think what you mean is "Where are my install floppies?" well, the install floppis aren't built unless you do a "make release" in the top of the source tree. This takes a long time depending on your processor and requires something outrageous like 600megs of disk (well not that bad, but for some people it is) What i suggest is downloading a -stable "SNAP" you can get them from both ftp.freebsd.org and ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ those directories have boot floppies in them as well as the binaries for a -stable install from the date encoded in the directory name. Please don't flame me if the boot floppies got easier to make in the last month as i havne't seen any anouncements. :) If you just want a FreeBSD boot floppy and not an install disk, look at PicoBSD i think it's in -stable as well as -current, you also have the option of using kzip to fit a kernel onto a floppy and using disklabel to make that floppy bootable. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Foster, Jim wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to work my way from 2.2.7-Release to 2.2.7-Stable. While most > of my questions were answered by the folks over on FreeBSD-stable, one very > important question (at least to me) was left unanswered. > > I need to boot my machine from a floppy, but I can't seem to find out where > the floppy image will be at to rebuild the disk. Will it be a single file > like boot.flp, or will it be a set of files that need to be installed? I > assume that it will be made after the kernel is re-built. Is that a correct > assumption? > > Thanks, and please be sure to cc directly to me since I don't subscribe to > FreeBSD-questions or FreeBSD-hackers because of the volume of mail that I > receive. > > Jim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message