From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 14 00:27:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA22897 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA22889 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA07897; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:27:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: joed@ksu.edu cc: install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD on a headless pc? In-Reply-To: <199704140206.VAA22248@fox> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 joed@ksu.edu wrote: > Okie dokie (puts his blind man hat on and tries to time -k properly) > > Just out of curiousity (I seem to be having bad luck with this lately...) > is there any documentation somewhere on the process of building an install > floppy. Just in case I got over zealoused and decided to try to build my > own install froppy? Not really. I guess the best thing would be to look at the src/release Makefile and see what you can get. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/Makefile > Specificially I'm curious about how to construct the filesystem and how to > read stuff off the existing boot floppies. It's done automatically, but you need to have the CVS tree online. That's about 300mb. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major