From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 7:51: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serveri.netti.fi (serveri.netti.fi [195.16.192.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2192514FBA for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:50:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from namhas@netmill.fi) Received: from netmill.fi (saurus.pp.netti.fi [195.16.193.31]) by serveri.netti.fi (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA07557; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:50:31 +0300 Message-ID: <3703B0D7.BF9F8E03@netmill.fi> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 20:45:59 +0300 From: Tommi Leino Organization: Netmill Information Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i build a boot disk? References: <19990331122212.RRGT5470601.mta2-rme@wocker> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Langille wrote: > > I found no documentation concerning the building of a boot disk. I > > have to build such a disk since I _can't_ use a boot manager, and > > apparently there is no way to boot FreeBSD directly from Windows > > or DOS in the way of loadlin for example. So, how do i build a boot > > disk or is there an alternative way? > > It's on the ftp server in the file install.txt but you might want to see > how I did it at http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/install19990320.htm Well, it didn't tell about how to build a _boot_ disk, it did however tell how to build the _installation_ disks, kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. They are only used for installation I think, at least I didn't manage to boot from an already installed FreeBSD partition using a kern.flp. -- Systems expert http://www.netmill.fi/ Tommi.Leino@netmill.fi tel. +358-9-612 623 43 Netmill Information Technology fax. +358-9-612 623 11 Neitsytpolku 5, FIN-00140 Helsinki mobile +358-50-339 1334 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message