From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 17:58:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10454 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10438; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02454; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:57:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811250157.RAA02454@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Foster, Jim" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Getting to Stable and boot floppies In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:18:08 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:57:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? Do you boot the kernel off the floppy, or just use the floppy bootblocks? If the latter, there's nothing you need to change. If the former, then you'll need to copy a new kernel onto the floppy as well. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message