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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: How to make bootable floppy? Date: 10 Sep 1995 16:48:18 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <42v4si$hg1@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <42uv4j$3d3@news.laser.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <42uv4j$3d3@news.laser.net> patton@laser.net writes: > >I have the original installation diskette to boot from in an emergency for now, >but how do I go about creating one from scratch? Specifically I need the >capability to restore files using dump and format/maintain partitions. I also would >like to use my own compiled kernal. Is this possible? Look in /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies for an example of how all this stuff works. Basically: # disklabel -w -B -b /usr/mdec/fdboot -s /usr/mdec/bootfd /dev/fd0a floppy # newfs /dev/rfd0a # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt # cp /sys/arch/i386/compile/MYKERNEL/netbsd /mnt/netbsd # umount /mnt This should do it. "disklabel -w -B /dev/fd0a floppy" would probably be ok also. -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---