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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:03:55 -0700
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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Making Bootable Disks
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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"