From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 19:12:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D63D37B401 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:12:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.2r) with SMTP id WAA12183; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:12:32 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: Ted Rattei , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Custom Kernel for install floppy? Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:16:41 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <20010115193752.A23271@visi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010115193752.A23271@visi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01011522164102.62867@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday January 15, 2001 20:37, Ted Rattei wrote: > Hello all, > > I have compiled a kernel that has support for the MCA bus, including > the Adaptec 1640 SCSI card, and a 3Com NIC. I only set the options > that were necessary for this particular machine (a NCR System 3450 > quad-P100 server). I have looked in the handbook with no success - > how do I move this new kernel onto the boot floppy? The kernel is > about 1.4 MB - I presume that it gets gzip compressed or something. > Assistance is greatly appriciated! Well it's in the FAQ at: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/book.html#CUSTOM-BOOT-FLOPPY Currently you have to make a whole release to have a custom boot floppy. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message