From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 3 07:30:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA15730 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 07:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA15726 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 07:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28293; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 10:30:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 10:30:35 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@tor-adm1 To: FREEBSD-HACKERS Subject: Creating bootable Syjet install disk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I want to create a bootable Syjet disk with an install kernel that sets up root in MFS, goes straight into /stand/sysinstall, etc., etc. There is enough room on a disk to fit several snapshots of FreeBSD, the entire packages collection, all ports, XFree86 installation tarballs, and a boot kernel. Copying boot.flp's kernel to the Syjet and booting it doesn't work. It hangs at the "rootfs is 1440 Kbyte compiled in MFS", just before /stand/sysinstall runs. I looked through /usr/src/release/Makefile and couldn't figure out how to make it build a kernel that would work from, say, /dev/sd0 or /dev/sd0 (if it is in fact possible for it to dynamically determine which device to use). Is the Makefile for rolling a CD image available somewhere? I assume that uses a slightly different kernel than the one on floppy. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"