From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 22 01:35:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA25585 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 01:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA25576 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 01:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5809 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Aug 1997 08:36:02 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1655.872237912@time.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 01:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy) Cc: Jaye Mathisen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi "Jordan K. Hubbard"; On 22-Aug-97 you wrote: > > The only way I know to create a boot floppy (and they work, trust me > > :-) is > > really ugly: > > > > * Start make release > > * Tail -f the output. > > * Once you see that the entire sys directory checked out from CVS, do: > > > > cd /usr/src/sys;cat DPT.LIST | cpio -dmpv /wherever/usr/src/sys > > Or: > > 1. Recreate DPT.LIST patches to be relative to /usr/src > > 2. make release ... LOCAL_PATCHES=/some/place/DPT.LIST No Kidding!!! This one gets framed. I am in awe... Really! Thanx! Simon