From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 20:58:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDF716A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9685C43D48 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 19041 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2004 20:58:32 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 21 Oct 2004 20:58:31 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.228] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9LKwQnG068720; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:58:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:09:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <000201c4b754$19110c20$9600000a@Desktop> In-Reply-To: <000201c4b754$19110c20$9600000a@Desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410211209.52598.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Jan Knoppers Subject: Re: Handbook 5.3 modifications: prepare floppies & advanced X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:58:32 -0000 On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:55 am, Jan Knoppers wrote: > On Friday 08 October 2004 02:54 am, spam maps wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some more differences between for 4.X and from > > 5.3, needs to be clarified in the handbook. > > Below are two such cases. The "-" lines need to > > be removed, the "+" newly added instead. > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > > > 2.2.7 Prepare the Boot Media > > > > -In most cases you will just need two files, > > -kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. > > > > +In case of 4.X, you will just need two files, > > +kern.flp and mfsroot.flp; since 5.3, you will > > +need three files, boot.flp, kern1.flp and > > +kern2.flp. > > Would it be possible you also describe how to restore the kernX.flp files? > Apparently they produce a couple of kernel.gz.XX files (kernel.gz.aa, > kernel.gz.ab, etc.) Somehow I can't get these restored to a normal kernel. > Gunzip does not recognize them as valid files. You have to cat them all together and then gunzip: cat kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab ... | gunzip > kernel -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org