Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 14:52:52 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stefan Bethke <Stefan.Bethke@Hanse.DE> Cc: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca>, FREEBSD-HACKERS <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Creating bootable Syjet install disk Message-ID: <2714.883867972@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jan 1998 18:20:46 %2B0100." <l03102800b0d41fda545e@[193.141.161.123]>
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> Unfortunatly, the current Makefile does not allow for building a new boot > floppy, although it would be quite convenient to be able to do that. It > probably would need some work to untangle the boot floppy build from the > release build. Which Julian tried to do at one point, but I could never make it work for myself so I guess it just rotted. > Another idea would be to have the mfs image saved (and put on the cd), so > one only had to build one's custom kernel and copy that image into this > kernel. Btw, is there a way to retroactively copy the mfs image out of the > kernel? It seemed to me that this isn't possible. [If you don't know what I think you could, actually. Take a look at write_mfs_in_kernel.c - I see no reason why you couldn't take a boot.flp, mount it, copy out /kernel, unzip it, then run a customized version of write_mfs_in_kernel.c which just read it out instead. > I'm talking about, take a look at the Makefile, Jordan has put a very nice > drawing there :-) ] Actually, Poul-Henning gets credit for that picture. He designed and implemented the whole MFSKERNEL idea in the first place! ;) Jordan
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