From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 3 20:23:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA27769 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 20:23:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA27744 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 20:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA19808; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 20:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd019806; Sat Jan 3 20:13:21 1998 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 20:10:16 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Stefan Bethke , Brian Tao , FREEBSD-HACKERS Subject: Re: Creating bootable Syjet install disk In-Reply-To: <2714.883867972@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk you never told me more than "it doesn't work for me" It was strange because serveral other people used it successfully I have 'sync'd it up' several times. My guess is that you were making some assumption due to your knowledge of the usual system, which other people (including me) were not making.. I guess it's time to do so again as I saw several relevant changes recently (e.g. libgzip) On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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. > > > Jordan >