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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to modify the kernel of the installation boot diskette for FreeBSD 2.1 Date: 6 Feb 1996 08:49:31 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4f74mr$846@times.tfs.com> References: <4egsti$nho@aldebaran.sct.fr> <4f4oul$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <4f4oul$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >segura@worldnet.net (Fabrice Segura) writes: > :> I have FreeBSD installed home, and compiled a kernel that should be :> OK. The question is; what should I do to rebuild the installation :> bootable diskette with this kernel on it ? : :Ummpf. That's rather difficult by now. : :You are apparently experienced with system administration. Perhaps :your best bet is to disklabel/newfs a floppy, put the kernel there, :and boot it. Once the file has been completely loaded, quickly :replace the floppy by the fixit floppy, so this one will be mounted as :root. Hopefully, it will contain enough stuff to get you going until :you've got a minimal system onto the hard disk of your other machine. you don't have to be so quick... boot with -c and when it stops in the config menu you can take as long as you want to change the floppy.