From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 05:21:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 05:21:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guava.araneus.fi (guava.araneus.fi [194.100.32.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03483 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 05:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gson@araneus.fi) Received: (from gson@localhost) by guava.araneus.fi (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA12367; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:21:31 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:21:31 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199902081321.PAA12367@guava.araneus.fi> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Building boot floppies From: gson@araneus.fi (Andreas Gustafsson) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like to build a customized FreeBSD boot floppy, but I keep running into problems. Here is what I've tried so far: 1. My first thought was to try the 3.0-RELEASE fixit floppy to see whether I could modify it to suit my purposes. This failed due to the bug already reported in PR #9051. 2. I found a procedure for building an emergency boot floppy in the "backup" section of the FreeBSD handbook . This didn't work either, because I could not get all the files to fit on the floppy even though I built a stripped-down kernel with only the most essential device drivers. I thought the kernels on boot floppies were generally compressed, but these instructions don't seem to mention compression at all - why? 3. After upgrading to 3.0-STABLE, I tried building a PicoBSD "net" floppy. This failed, too: ... strip crunch1 Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/sup/src/release/picobsd/net/crunch1 ln: /mnt/stand/reboot: File exists -> ERROR while building ../net/crunch1... -> Aborting ./populate # Is there any working, documented way of building a FreeBSD boot floppy without doing a full "make release"? -- Andreas Gustafsson, gson@araneus.fi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message