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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!not-for-mail From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: installation procedure Date: 13 Nov 1995 10:06:06 +0100 Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4871pu$dva@ida.interface-business.de> References: <480h34$frt@jupiter.planet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de Keywords: unix installation Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.unix.wizards:2058 comp.unix.bsd.misc:316 comp.unix.questions:72447 HCLA Deepak Goel <hcla@earth.planet.net> wrote: >I have an requirement in which I have to change the installation procedure. >I want to initiate install by booting from a floppy diskette, but want >to do a lot more before loading the kernel, itself. Where can I find >more information about this process. Any public domain software I >can study? That heavily depends on the kind of system you are using. For FreeBSD, the stages are documented in the boot_i386(8) man page (take care to get the current version, the version in FreeBSD 2.0.5 has been outdated), and in the ``memory usage'' section of the handbook. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de [private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]