Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:31:05 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Dave Smith <dizzyd@dizzyd.com> Cc: David Preece <davep@afterswish.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating BSD bootable CD Message-ID: <3A930C49.BE0EE66B@bellatlantic.net> References: <20010219171015.A16412@dizzyd.com> <5.0.2.1.1.20010220131304.02b7b660@pop3.paradise.net.nz> <20010219175846.A16500@dizzyd.com>
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Dave Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:16:17PM +1300, David Preece wrote: > > I started in the handbook, the section on backups and creating a bootable > > floppy was invaluable. It's also worth trawling the archives of > > freebsd-small, in particular look for "tinybsd" which (IIRC) is a > > configurable script for making a small installation of FreeBSD without > > going to the lengths that pico goes to, crunchgen etc. As far as I remember, there is not much special. Just create a bootable floppy image and give it as option -b to mkhybrid. (I strongly recommend mkhybrid over mkisofs because it tends to make defective filesystems in fewer cases). > Thanks. I'm already investigating this stuff. One more question -- is > there a list of all valid /dev nodes? cd /dev sh MAKEDEV all should do it. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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