From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 20 07:59:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA25093 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 07:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA25087 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 07:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA03483; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:58:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199704201458.QAA03483@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Making a boot.flp: problems with cvs -P In-Reply-To: from Joachim Kuebart at "Apr 20, 97 01:19:54 pm" To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:58:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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