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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to modify the kernel of the installation boot diskette for FreeBSD 2.1 Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:16:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4f4oul$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4egsti$nho@aldebaran.sct.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. -- 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. ;-)