Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 11:34:21 -0700 From: tony@thing.sunquest.com To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arrrrrrgh, making a boot floppy! :-( Message-ID: <9602231834.AA14252@thing.sunquest.com>
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In article <199602231655.KAA13327@brasil.moneng.mei.com> you wrote:
: console driver with SCANSET 2. I'm having a devil of a time just making the
: #*(&#&(#^#$*#$(@#9^$@(*#^(*@&)$@(@) floppy. Preferably without building the
: rest of the world, a release, etc.
: What is the correct procedure?
I just formatted, disklabelled, newfs'd and put the kernel onto it.
[I may have also had to use fdisk after the format, been so long since I
made by homegrown 2.0.5 recovery floppy, that I don't remember]
It took me a few iterations, but it seemed simple enough.
The gotchas I recall are:
a) label the disk with a bootblock (see man 8 disklabel)
b) I had to specify some geometry arguments to newfs, despite
using the appropriate disktab entry - otherwise, I ended up
with way less than 1.44MB
You might want to look into using a compressed kernel and enabling gzip
binaries also.
If this isn't clear, send me some e-mail.
tony
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