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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:45:55 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        frank@exit.com (Frank Mayhar)
Subject:   Re: Making a boot floppy.
Message-ID:  <19970827094555.IM38228@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199708261713.KAA20029@exit.com>; from Frank Mayhar on Aug 26, 1997 10:13:52 -0700
References:  <199708261713.KAA20029@exit.com>

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As Frank Mayhar wrote:

> Is it still impossible to make a boot floppy without going through the
> whole "make release" process?  If not, can anyone provide any pointers?
> My release is already made, but I screwed up the config on the boot
> floppy, and I don't really have the time to go through the whole hours-
> long make release.

In this case, simply chroot into the release build area, cd to
/usr/src/release there, remove obj/release.* as appropriate (they are
loosely commented in the Makefile), and say `make doRELEASE'.  I've
often done it this way.  Make sure to not remove obj/release.[67],
these are the large tarballs that take quite some time to be created.

Did reading Makefiles really become black magic in the 20th century?
:-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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