From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 10:34:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22027 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:34:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22022 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:34:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA15763; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:37:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:37:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: "Foster, Jim" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Getting to Stable and boot floppies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Foster, Jim wrote: > Alfred, > > I am looking just for a boot floppy, not an install floppy. And, if it > makes a difference, I am just using it to boot-strap to my disk > installation. newfs a floppy: newfs -T fd1440 fd0 install the loader: disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/fd0 edit "boot.conf" on the floppy to be: (mount the floppy) boot 0:wd(0,a)kernel i'm unsure of that last line, try it without the "boot" string if it misbehaves. You will have to replace the "0:wd(0,a)kernel" with what you need, for more hints try "man boot" and "more /boot.help" Then you can have a floppy that boots a kernel off a different disk. -Alfred btw, kzip works as follows: cp /kernel kzip kernel ls -l kernel.kz good luck. > > Since you mentioned the PicoBSD boot disk, does this mean that my existing > FreeBSD Release floppy would work too? Do I need to keep my boot floppy in > sync with my installation? You shouldn't unless changes are made to the kernel that make it incompat with your boot disk's floppies, at that point you will have to issue the: disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/fd0 command again. > > With kzip, I did not see on the man page on how to specify what kernel file > to use. This seems to imply to me that it zips the "current" kernel, not > necessarily one that is yet to be installed. If this is the case it appears > that I have a catch-22. I can't make the boot floppy until I reboot, I > can't reboot until I make the floppy. read above. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message