From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 18 05:03:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA24924 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 05:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA24918 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 05:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA06143 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 10:49:03 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA28468; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 10:47:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA03343; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:54:38 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512180854.JAA03343@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: -c boot problem To: jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (H. Jared Agnew) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:54:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "H. Jared Agnew" at Dec 12, 95 04:49:25 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As H. Jared Agnew wrote: > > I guess nobody can help me with my problem that I mailed a week ago. > Thanks for the help that I got though. I figure my best bet now is to > create a boot.flp that will install to his system and is already > configured to his system. I have pulled down the src/srelease files and > would like to compile a boot.flp. I have asked on IRC a few times and > posted to questions and nobody knows what I have to do. Is there > somewhere that I can find out how to create a boot.flp or does someone > have instructions. No news is good news? To create a boot floppy, you need ~ 400 MB free space, in order to run ``make release''. You also need a full CVS tree, or you must tweak the Makefiles to work without CVS. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)