From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 18 10:03:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03199 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phantasm.scl.ameslab.gov (phantasm.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.142.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03193 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ccsanady@localhost) by phantasm.scl.ameslab.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA02047 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:02:19 GMT From: "Chris Csanady" Message-Id: <9708181202.ZM2045@phantasm.scl.ameslab.gov> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:02:19 -0500 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: fs's on floppies.. (installing many machines) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need to install a bunch of FreeBSD boxes and was wondering how I may create a bootable floppy. I thought, hey--this should be no trouble.. but I cannot get it to mount the root filesystem. I basically want to have a floppy capable of writing a partition table, disklabeling, newfsing, and untarring a file over nfs. So.. I created a fs on a floppy, copied a kernel, init and friends, but it hangs after something like "mounting root.." and "configure() finished".. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Chris PS, please leave me cc'd