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Subject: Re: creating custom FreeBSD boot floppies
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"Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> writes:

>    I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. I want to create customized boot media,
> the kern floppy image for sure and possibly the mfsroot disk, i would
> like to know how they are made. I've found items, ut they seem to be
> 4.x specific. Does anyone have this for 6.x?

The easy way is actually to make (or just download) the default ones,
and modify them.  That is only easy for simple changes, though, so if
it doesn't help, you can take a look at the manual for release(7).