From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 27 00:54:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA17616 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA17611 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA10525; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:53:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA08721; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:45:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970827094555.IM38228@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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. References: <199708261713.KAA20029@exit.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199708261713.KAA20029@exit.com>; from Frank Mayhar on Aug 26, 1997 10:13:52 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)