Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:03:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com Subject: Re: Making Bootable Disks Message-ID: <321A1A2B.167EB0E7@whistle.com> References: <199608201429.JAA20513@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Joe Greco wrote: > > > As Dennis wrote: > > > > > > Is it outlined/described anywhere how to make a bootable system floppy? > > > > disklabel -Brw fd0 > > newfs ... /dev/rfd0a (look into /etc/disktab for the options) [...] > I did, at one point, take what's there and create a "router floppy" from it, > using a compressed kernel and a built-in kernel MFS, the same way that > boot.flp does. > > It was actually kinda slick... you can take arbitrary programs and stuff > and create a single "crunched" binary from them (see man -k crunch). You > then populate your /bin or /stand with that binary and a bunch of hard > links... make your /dev and /etc trees and anything else you need... and > go off on your merry way. > > I make it sound so easy. :-) It was a six hour hack job to make it > buildable from a makefile.... not too hard just a little slow to do the > "make"/"make floppy"/boot it/find problem/ etc cycle... [...] As I mentionned earlier. afte doing a make world, go to /usr/src/install/floppies and type "make"
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