Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:21:31 +0200 (EET) From: gson@araneus.fi (Andreas Gustafsson) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Building boot floppies Message-ID: <199902081321.PAA12367@guava.araneus.fi>
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I'd like to build a customized FreeBSD boot floppy, but I keep running into problems. Here is what I've tried so far: 1. My first thought was to try the 3.0-RELEASE fixit floppy to see whether I could modify it to suit my purposes. This failed due to the bug already reported in PR #9051. 2. I found a procedure for building an emergency boot floppy in the "backup" section of the FreeBSD handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook139.html>. This didn't work either, because I could not get all the files to fit on the floppy even though I built a stripped-down kernel with only the most essential device drivers. I thought the kernels on boot floppies were generally compressed, but these instructions don't seem to mention compression at all - why? 3. After upgrading to 3.0-STABLE, I tried building a PicoBSD "net" floppy. This failed, too: ... strip crunch1 Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/sup/src/release/picobsd/net/crunch1 ln: /mnt/stand/reboot: File exists -> ERROR while building ../net/crunch1... -> Aborting ./populate # Is there any working, documented way of building a FreeBSD boot floppy without doing a full "make release"? -- Andreas Gustafsson, gson@araneus.fi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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