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From: Jeffrey Yeo <jwyeo2@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: Creating a bootable FreeBSD kernel image?
To: Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net>,
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There's also an article on BSD Today about building a CD
bootable firewall:
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html

--- Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> wrote:
> * Andrew P. Lentvorski <bsder@mail.allcaps.org>
> [2002-09-02 20:45]:
> > How do I create a bootable FreeBSD image?  For example,
> if I wanted to
> > boot the kernel off of a floopy (yes, I know that the
> FreeBSD kernel is
> > larger than 1.44MB) but mount root, swap, etc. off of
> hard drives?
> > 
> > In Linux, the magic command is something like "make
> bzdisk" which will
> > create a bootable floopy with the kernel on it.  I
> don't know the
> > corresponding magic from "make buildkernel" in FreeBSD,
> however.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -a
> > 
> 
> Creating a bootable CD is more useful- see a partial
> description
> of creating a bootable CD in the handbook at:
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
> 
> There are also more references to this topic in the mail
> archives.
> 
> HTH,
> jpb
> ===
> 
> 
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