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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: building an install kernel
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 09:52:52 -0700
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Simon Harris wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know how to build an install kernel? I've got 2.1 installed

I'm afraid it currently requires a CVS tree and quite a bit of disk
space. :-(  Some work has been done to break the boot floppy build
process apart from the "whole release" build process, but it's only
about halfway done.
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project