Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:39:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Junichi Saito <junichi@wanadoo.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create a boot disk ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222213359.11353A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971222104938.26606C-100000@junichi>
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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Junichi Saito wrote: > I am thinking of creating a boot disk with a kernel supporting "ppa". I > use a parallel port Iomega ZIP for backing up and restoring with the tar. > I don't need incremental backups. I followed the way explained in the > handbook. But the kernel, with the very minimum configuration, is yet too > large for the tar to be put on the disk in stead of "restore". So what I > would like to do now is to create a boot disk with only a kernel on it > like "boot.flp", (I mean a boot disk that presents you, after booting, a > menu giving you the choice for switching to "fixit.flp"), but with the ppa > support. > > - Can someone tell me how I can achive this ? > - Does somebody have any suggestions for alternative ways of doing what I > want to ? > - Is it possibe to compile the ppa as module and use it with the existing > "boot.flp" ? And if so, how ? > Thank you for your attention and time. Right now I''m working on sticking parallel port ZIP support into boot.flp, though my time is rather limited. I would suspect that, with this done, you could just drop that boot.flp image in and run the fixit floppy under that, with full access to the ZIP drive, as I understand the process. Someone jump in if that isn't right. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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