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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a floppy?
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FreeBSD on a floppy???

Once I did it
Supose you have a floppy with a ufs filesystem on it..

disklabel  -r -w /dev/rfd0 fd1440
newfs -t2 -u 18 /dev/rfd0
tunefs -m 0 /dev/rfd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/sbin /mnt/dev /mnt/etc

1) install the sources (the /usr/src directory)
2) use the crunchgen command (man crunchgen) to build an
	executable with everything you need inside like: ifconfig, route,
netstat, pppd, sh, cp, cat, find, cpio...  
   Name it binaries and install it on a /bin in the floppy using gzip
	gzip < binaries > /mnt/bin/binaries.
3) make the /dev directory on the floppy (cd floppy, sh /dev/MAKEDEV all).
4) build a small kernel with gzip binaries, pppd slip. and install it on 
the floppy.
5) create links for the binaries (ln -s binary cp; ln -s binary sh....)
6) copy the /sbin/init to the /mnt/sbin
7) create a etc/rc in the floppy... This is the startup file the system 
will use.

Once booted, the system will execute the /etc/rc file...
There you can setup anything you want using the commands in the /bin


Hope this will help....

Sergio Lenzi.

Unix consult.