From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 2 08:28:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07140 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 08:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06961 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 08:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA27433; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:27:14 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA09003; Sat, 2 May 1998 17:26:58 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980502172658.27233@follo.net> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 17:26:58 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Jamie Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot floppy. References: <3541F04D.474FE994@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Howard on Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:19:28AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:19:28AM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: > Hi, I'd like to create a FreeBSD boot floppy that will automatically start > 1:sd(0,a)kernel (or whatever) at start up. How can this be done? Look at /usr/src/release/Makefile. Apart from that, you can probably do the above by just initializing a floppy with newfs -B, and putting in a boot.config file on it. 'man 8 boot' for details. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message