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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:27:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        joed@ksu.edu
Cc:        install@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation of FreeBSD on a headless pc?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970414002628.7719P-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199704140206.VAA22248@fox>

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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 joed@ksu.edu wrote:

> Okie dokie (puts his blind man hat on and tries to time -k properly)
> 
> Just out of curiousity (I seem to be having bad luck with this lately...)
> is there any documentation somewhere on the process of building an install
> floppy.   Just in case I got over zealoused and decided to try to build my
> own install froppy?

Not really.  I guess the best thing would be to look at the src/release
Makefile and see what you can get.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/Makefile

> Specificially I'm curious about how to construct the filesystem and how to
> read stuff off the existing boot floppies.

It's done automatically, but you need to have the CVS tree online.  That's
about 300mb.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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