From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 23 15:05:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA19598 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19590 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:05:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA04041; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:04:44 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA19126; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:04:43 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA05382; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:52:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602232152.WAA05382@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Arrrrrrgh, making a boot floppy! :-( To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:52:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602231655.KAA13327@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Feb 23, 96 10:55:53 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)