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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:07:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: boot floppies
Message-ID:  <200006151807.LAA14161@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000615134928.A7173@cichlids.cichlids.com> from Alexander Langer at "Jun 15, 2000 01:49:28 pm"

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> Hello!
> 
> Could anyone make me a script that creates a working boot-1.44M-floppy with
> a given binary (setup) as init?
> 
> I've tried it, but somehow I have no success - boot1 always gives the
> error "Read error", and I don't know, why.
> 
> Help is also fine. I'm attaching my makefile, that I'm using at the
> moment.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Alex, hoping for reply. Really.

Look at how the makefile in src/release/Makefile makes the floppy images,
or check the picoBSD scripts/makefiles.  I think that fdformat/
disklabel -B/newfs is the basic combination you are looking for.

--

John Baldwin
<jhb@bsdi.com>


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