Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 08:00:15 -0400 (EDT) From: cgull+usenet-876052587@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood) To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: nik@iii.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Different kernels for the bindist and boot.flp? Message-ID: <199709211200.IAA21345@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> In-Reply-To: <199709181124.UAA00465@word.smith.net.au> References: <19970918121246.52480@strand.iii.co.uk> <199709181124.UAA00465@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith writes: > No, it's actually quite hard. Due to the way the boot floppy works, > you have to build a custom image with your new kernel, and then hack > sysinstall to splat a new kernel image down after it's extracted the > bindist. You could alternatively specify a different kernel to go in > the bindist, which is relatively straightforward but slow (you have to > build a release to do it). As I've said before, a way around this is to copy the contents of that MFS onto a floppy, put your custom keeno kernel on another floppy, and swap them at the prompt. Perhaps this could be documented or made more accessible? --jh -- Mr. Belliveau said, "the difference was the wise, John Hood, cgull intelligent look on the face of the cow." He was @ *so* right. --Ofer Inbar smoke.marlboro.vt.us
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