Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:52:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Subject: Re: Arrrrrrgh, making a boot floppy! :-( Message-ID: <199602232152.WAA05382@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602231655.KAA13327@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Feb 23, 96 10:55:53 am
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As 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? Pick Nate's bootfloppy. :) Making a bootfloppy is rather easy (newfs, mount, and cp a kernel over to it), but making an installation floppy is a harder bit of work. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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