From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 14:20:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BCB14D5C for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990401222141.BSIH5611744.mta2-rme@wocker>; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:21:41 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Tommi Leino Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:20:14 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: how do i build a boot disk? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <3703B0D7.BF9F8E03@netmill.fi> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990401222141.BSIH5611744.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Apr 99, at 20:45, Tommi Leino wrote: > 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. My mistake. I apologise. But this information is on my site. I knew it was. So I went to http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/search.htm and searched on bootable. Take the first hit which is http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/disaster.htm, the title of which is "Creating a bootable floppy". Warning: This was written for 2.2.* I haven't heard that the process has changed under 3.*. Two lessons: get your URL right. If at first you don't find what you want, try the search page. Again, sorry for the misdirection. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message