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To: Dave Smith <dizzyd@dizzyd.com>
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Subject: Re: Creating BSD bootable CD
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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

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