Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:52:26 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rgen_Pehrson?= <jp@spektr.eu.org> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to create a boot floppy? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103041920530.33480-100000@spektr.eu.org>
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Hi, I've been using PicoBSD as a router between my home LAN and my ISP for a while now. But since I recently switched to ADSL I need to have a DHCP client on the router among other stuff. So I was thinking of making a bootable CDROM image instead since there's not much room left on the floppy anymore. I guess I will just make a mkisofs of the HD. But how should I create the floppy boot image for it? I just want it to hold the kernel and boot blocks. And then it should mount and use the CD image for the rest. Under Linux the only thing would be needed is to cat the kernel to the floppy since the kernel already contains all neccessary bootblocks. And then maybe a rdev to set the root device on the floppy to the CD. But how do I do this under FreeBSD? I don't want to save any logfiles or anything like that so I guess I can have the filesystem read-only? (The reason I want to use a CD is to make it completely silent. No spinning HD, no fan or anything. That's why the floppy solution was perfect up until now.) -- Jörgen Pehrson jp@spektr.eu.org http://spektr.eu.org/~jp/ ----------------------------------------------------------- "i must say the linux community is a lot nicer than the unix community. a negative comment on unix would warrent death threats. with linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies." -- Ken Thompson. 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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