Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:54:06 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting to Stable and boot floppies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811241246550.10312-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB14DDC40F@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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Please don't cc to multiple lists, especially ones you aren't subscribed to. Anyhow... I think what you mean is "Where are my install floppies?" well, the install floppis aren't built unless you do a "make release" in the top of the source tree. This takes a long time depending on your processor and requires something outrageous like 600megs of disk (well not that bad, but for some people it is) What i suggest is downloading a -stable "SNAP" you can get them from both ftp.freebsd.org and ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ those directories have boot floppies in them as well as the binaries for a -stable install from the date encoded in the directory name. Please don't flame me if the boot floppies got easier to make in the last month as i havne't seen any anouncements. :) If you just want a FreeBSD boot floppy and not an install disk, look at PicoBSD i think it's in -stable as well as -current, you also have the option of using kzip to fit a kernel onto a floppy and using disklabel to make that floppy bootable. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Foster, Jim wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to work my way from 2.2.7-Release to 2.2.7-Stable. While most > of my questions were answered by the folks over on FreeBSD-stable, one very > important question (at least to me) was left unanswered. > > I need to boot my machine from a floppy, but I can't seem to find out where > the floppy image will be at to rebuild the disk. Will it be a single file > like boot.flp, or will it be a set of files that need to be installed? I > assume that it will be made after the kernel is re-built. Is that a correct > assumption? > > Thanks, and please be sure to cc directly to me since I don't subscribe to > FreeBSD-questions or FreeBSD-hackers because of the volume of mail that I > receive. > > Jim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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