From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 23 11:01:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA00305 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:01:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00300 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0tq2kR-0009YVC; Fri, 23 Feb 96 11:01 PST Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:01:43 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: Joe Greco cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Arrrrrrgh, making a boot floppy! :-( In-Reply-To: <199602231655.KAA13327@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Feb 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > I need to generate a boot floppy with a modified kernel. A local hacker has > a Thinkpad 720(?) and is trying to install FreeBSD on it, it seems to be > freaking on his keyboard so I am trying to put pcvt in as the default > 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? > > Thanks, > > ... JG I would be interested in this information too! Thanks... ---Jake