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Subject: Re: make boot floppy.
To: lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br (Sergio Lenzi)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 09:47:58 +0100 (MET)
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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Excuse-me for making such a question here at hackers list,
> but I have done in questions list and got no answer...
> 
> problem: I need to make a floppy (boot disk) using the sources,
> I have the source (usr/src) direcory, AS I have seen in the makefiles,
> the command make World wound compile everyting. 
> question: Is it possible to make only the boot floppy without makeing world??
> Is there a road map on how to do it?? Please???
> 
> Sergio de Almeida Lenzi.

Making boot floppies implies making a release (/usr/src/release/Makefile)
which in turn implies make world and lots of other things.
Also (I believe) you need a CVS tree to roll your own release.
As you see, It's not an easy task.

> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de