From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 03:14:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA16670 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 03:14:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr (smtp.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA16659 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 03:14:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junichi@wanadoo.fr) Received: from tamaya.wanadoo.fr (tamaya.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.31]) by smtp1.wanadoo.fr (8.7.5/[France Telecom Interactive]) with ESMTP id MAA07997 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:13:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from tls3-28.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.252.155.28] by tamaya.wanadoo.fr for Paris Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:15:17 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:13:09 +0000 ( ) From: Junichi Saito X-Sender: junichi@junichi Reply-To: Junichi Saito To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to create a boot disk ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am thinking of creating a boot disk with a kernel supporting "ppa". I use a parallel port Iomega ZIP for backing up and restoring with the tar. I don't need incremental backups. I followed the way explained in the handbook. But the kernel, with the very minimum configuration, is yet too large for the tar to be put on the disk in stead of "restore". So what I would like to do now is to create a boot disk with only a kernel on it like "boot.flp", (I mean a boot disk that presents you, after booting, a menu giving you the choice for switching to "fixit.flp"), but with the ppa support. - Can someone tell me how I can achive this ? - Does somebody have any suggestions for alternative ways of doing what I want to ? - Is it possibe to compile the ppa as module and use it with the existing "boot.flp" ? And if so, how ? Thank you for your attention and time. junichi