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Subject: Re: Creating bootable Syjet install disk 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jan 1998 18:20:46 +0100."
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Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 14:52:52 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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