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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:09:39 -0800
From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Making a boot floppy
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Here is what I have done.

fdformat -ted a new disk.

disklabel -ed the disk.

newfs -B the disk with out setting -s -b args. This puts the boot
blocks  from /usr/mdec on the floppy right?

mounted floppy successfully.

copied /kernel to the floppy succesfully.
 
REBOOT kernel started to load but eventually resulted in kernel panic
-   no init.

made a miniscule tree on the floppy including /sbin/init /etc/rc  
/etc/ttys /dev/console /dev/ttyv1 /dev/ttyv2

REBOOT resulting in no kernel panic (yaaahoo) but resulting in system  
hang (boohoo)

The man page on the init program is sufficiently vague that I cannot  
determine what is missing on my floppy that is needed to support boot.

I know that FAQS say rawrite dist.fs and then delete rm -rf. I want 
  to know how to make this work more that just wanting it to work.
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