From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 21 23:02:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA17953 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smoke.marlboro.vt.us (smoke.marlboro.vt.us [198.206.215.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA17933 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cgull@localhost) by smoke.marlboro.vt.us (8.8.7/8.8.7/cgull) id CAA09267; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 02:02:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 02:02:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199708220602.CAA09267@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> From: john hood MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jaye Mathisen , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy) In-Reply-To: References: <33FCCA31.FF6D5DF@whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under Emacs 19.34.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jaye Mathisen writes: > I tried making a tweaked kernel that only had my devices in it, and the > boot floppy just got smaller, but had the same problem with inodes. I didn't want to deal with the whole floppy-generation process, either. I'll suggest a crude hack in order to get around the problem. I used it to gen up floppies with my own kernel and enough toys to check my IDE code on random PCs that I come across. I haven't tried an install with it, but it ought to work. Oh, there's one possible exceptional case. Are you doing a floppy install? (That anguished wail I heard from you-- I take it you mean 'no'... :) 1) Boot a distribution boot floppy on a FreeBSD box; copy the MFS filesystem off to a temp dir on its hard disk. 2) Copy this stuff, modulo whatever changes you might need (DPT device nodes for you, maybe) to a filesystem floppy. 3) Generate a normal kernel with the DPT driver (except that it has 'swap generic' in the config file), put it on another floppy. 4) boot -a, swap floppies, watch sysinstall run with breathtaking lack of speed from floppy :) --jh -- John Hood cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us Predictably, they all eventually wandered away, rubbing their bruises and brushing mud out of their hair. Some went off to work for the ESA, launching much smaller rockets into low orbits, while others elected to sit on their front porches drinking Jim Beam from the bottle and launching bottle rockets from the empties. [Jordan Hubbard]