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Subject: Re: webbox with bsdi
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
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In-Reply-To: <320F94C7.2781E494@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Aug 12, 96 01:32:07 pm
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Julian Elischer writes:
| 
| > >       Is there a virtual disk system (memory based) in FreeBSD ?
| > 
| > Yes.
| 
| in -current,
| look at /usr/src/release/floppies.
| 
| the boot floppy made there could easily be tailored to contain whatever
| you require.
| just duplicate teh 'boot' directory and edit it..
| (worked lat time I checked..
| 
| Jordan, I went to a lot of trouble to separate out the disk production 
| stuff and it worked fine last  I looked. 
| your commnets that it didn't work are  a worry..
| can you tell me what was wrong?
| it's a lot simpler than teh current stuff and should be easier to
|  debug...

Over this last weekend I got my serial install floppy working and ran into
a bug in the script that makes a tiny file-system.  Your new method
works great and I made another change to crunch phase to use relative
paths instead of absolute.

Unfortunately I probably won't be able to get the patches together until Wed.

Doug A.