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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd] How do I construct a bootable floppy? Date: 27 Oct 1992 11:55:10 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1cjamuINNrq0@Germany.EU.net> References: <raz.719979570@syzygy> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net Keywords: 386bsd boot floppy Would comebody please put this in an FAQ - thanks. In article <raz.719979570@syzygy>, raz@socs.uts.edu.au (The Inimitable Raz) writes: > I have examined newfs and other man pages but none appear to > explain how to make a bootable floppy. Apart from obvious things > like making a filesystem on the floppy and copying on 368bsd and init > and sh, how do I make it bootable. cat /usr/mdec/bootfd and /usr/mdec/fdboot (smaller file first) to /dev/rfd?a for 5.25 in floppies. goto /sys/(i386/ ?)stand and compile the fdboot and bootfd there to get the versions for a 3.5 in floppy > Also - how do I format floppies? Use another operating system. Cheers, Bernard P.S. The next person asking something like "how do I format floppies" will be left out by Father Christmas. So be careful ! -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV