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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Arrrrrrgh, making a boot floppy! :-( 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:55:53 CST."
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:39:13 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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

I'd forget it.  It takes a couple of hundred megs of disk space, at a
minimum, and you need to be rather intimiately aquainted with the
workings of /usr/src/release/Makefile to even contemplate substituting
another kernel in.

If you're really keen on doing this then I suggest reading the above
VERY VERY thoroughly.

					Jordan