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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.linfield.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.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: Making a custom boot floppy Date: 7 Mar 1996 00:30:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4hlamv$d95@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1996Feb29.060050.12350@cs.mun.ca> 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 amigus@cs.mun.ca (Adam Migus) writes: > Is there a way to create my own boot floppy to install from, ... There's always a way. However, while it's relatively easy to create a boot floppy (all you need is to newfs it, mount it, and put a /kernel over), it's a much more complicated task to create a custom _installation_ floppy. By now (and without tweaking the Makefile), you need a full-blown CVS source repository, plus >~ 400 MB free space, and the required CPU cycles to compile a full release from scratch. -- 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. ;-)