Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:29:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com Subject: Re: Making Bootable Disks Message-ID: <199608201429.JAA20513@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199608200321.FAA15332@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 20, 96 05:21:55 am
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> 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) > mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > cp /kernel /mnt > umount /mnt With all due respect Joerg, that's nice but not very useful :-) The kernel alone will take 2/3 the floppy. I don't know of anywhere that documents it, unless you count the stuff in /usr/src/release. 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... ... JG
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