From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 23 5:24:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from eltex.ru (eltex-spiiras.nw.ru [195.19.204.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C50714C32 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 05:24:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from antuan@eltex.ru) Received: from gadget.eltex.ru (root@gadget.eltex.ru [195.19.198.14]) by eltex.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA23388; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:24:08 +0300 (MSK) Received: by gadget.eltex.ru (ssmtp TIS-0.5alpha, 19 Oct 1998); Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:23:50 +0300 Received: from undisclosed-intranet-sender id xma010045; Tue, 23 Mar 99 16:23:37 +0300 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:27:45 +0300 (MSK) From: Antuan Avdioukhine To: George Morgan Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single o dual diskette boot? In-Reply-To: <199903231244.HAA05254@sable.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, George Morgan wrote: > > People! Is there any FAQ or "how-to" about producing single-floppy-boot > > disk for FreeBSD? Some info I'd found in mailing list archives, but it is > > about 3.x ELF kernel. > In either case you need to use a utillity to write a raw disk image to > a disk. I've seen it done with "dd" in UNIX and "rawrite.exe" or > "fdimage.exe" in DOS or Windows 95. In order to make a single > bootable disk in 3.1 or later (might be 3.0 also) you need a 2.88MB > floppy since that is the space required for the single disk floppy. > (that's why most people use two) Here are some steps: [...] > I think that's it. You can also check the FreeBSD handbook at > http://www.freebsd.org I thing I was not too clear to explain my problem... I know how to put an image to disk. ;-) Problem is how to _build_ floppy with my own kernel and environment? I. e. how to make valid kernel, how to learn it to ask next floppie and so forth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message