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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Compiling 386bsd-0.1 on < 40Meg ( I've done it) Message-ID: <david.715219959@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.) References: <colin.715158768@marsh> <1992Aug30.210015.22769@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: 31 Aug 92 00:12:39 GMT Lines: 45 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <colin.715158768@marsh> colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes: >> Now that I've compiled the kernel, how do I make a bootable floppy? > I need to put this in the FAQ. The procedure is as follows: > Terry Lambert > terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com > terry@icarus.weber.edu Your procedure is perfectly good for creating a copy of the dist.fs with a new kernel. As for the more generic question of :How do I make a bootable floppy :- Put the floppy in (say /dev/fd0a) drive a. type 'newfs /dev/fd0a floppy' mount /dev/fd0a /mnt copy /.../386bsd /mnt/386bsd (copy on any other utils you will/may need such as init) umount /mnt The trick here is simply that typing 'newfs /dev/fd0a floppy' puts a file system on the floppy, and AUTOMATICALLY places boot code on the floppy disk. As long as /386bsd exists on the floppy, it will boot! >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > terry@icarus.weber.edu > "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David Le Blanc : Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, : and a freight train.' the Alien P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149 : in Alien^3.