From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 09:55:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0092416A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:55:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp14.wxs.nl (smtp14.wxs.nl [195.121.6.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265E443D1F for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:55:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from knoppers@astent.nl) Received: from Desktop (ipd50a9808.speed.planet.nl [213.10.152.8]) by smtp14.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I5X00AEUI8JEC@smtp14.wxs.nl> for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:55:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:55:29 +0200 From: Jan Knoppers To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-id: <000201c4b754$19110c20$9600000a@Desktop> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Handbook 5.3 modifications: prepare floppies & advanced X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:55:49 -0000 On Friday 08 October 2004 02:54 am, spam maps wrote: > Hi, > > Some more differences between for 4.X and from > 5.3, needs to be clarified in the handbook. > Below are two such cases. The "-" lines need to > be removed, the "+" newly added instead. > > ------------------------------------------------ > > 2.2.7 Prepare the Boot Media > > -In most cases you will just need two files, > -kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. > > +In case of 4.X, you will just need two files, > +kern.flp and mfsroot.flp; since 5.3, you will > +need three files, boot.flp, kern1.flp and > +kern2.flp. Would it be possible you also describe how to restore the kernX.flp files? Apparently they produce a couple of kernel.gz.XX files (kernel.gz.aa, kernel.gz.ab, etc.) Somehow I can't get these restored to a normal kernel. Gunzip does not recognize them as valid files. Best regards, Jan Knoppers