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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:58:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making a boot.flp: problems with cvs -P
Message-ID:  <199704201458.QAA03483@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970420131305.12717B-100000@jocki> from Joachim Kuebart at "Apr 20, 97 01:19:54 pm"

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Hi,

First try to keep just *one* subject per email. Thanks!


> Hi!
> 
> I was trying to build a boot.flp from my FreBSD 2.2-RELEASE source tree. I
> tried
> 
> 	make release CHROOTDIR=/usr/release BUILDNAME=2.2-RELEASE
> 
> and it stopped because it tried to call 
> 	
> 	cvs -P
> 
> while my cvs doesn't understand the -P option although the man page says
> so :-(

I guess even *your* cvs understands this option, but it needs some arguments
and they seem missing.
> 
> Now apart from this problem could someone tell me the real way to create a
> boot.flp because making the release seems a bit too big a solution :-)

Grab the image from an FTP-Server.

If you need a boot floppy with a customized kernel consult the handbook
at 10.5.9.5 about Emergency Restore Procedure.

Hope this helps,

Wolfgang



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