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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!elausrv2.att.net.au!news.att.net.hk!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sgi.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!chiuk@cs.indiana.edu From: "Kenneth Chiu" <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernels and odd root partitions Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 19:56:11 -0500 (EST) Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2539@846809777> References: <557vuu$3td@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: numbfish.cs.indiana.edu In article <557vuu$3td@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, Doug Burks <dbx@atmos.washington.edu> wrote: >* How do you create a compressed kernel? The source code points to > a kzip script, but I can find no sign of it. I think it's in /usr/bin. But anyway, I just used it today, so I know it's around somewhere. You can always do: find / -name '*kzip*' -print It doesn't seem to have a man page, but you can find how to use it by looking at the source, or look in /usr/src/release/Makefile. >* I discovered how to create a MFS root partition, but, how can I > initialize it to hold a given filesystem? Look in /usr/src/release/doFS.sh. It's somewhat hairy. I think it might be simplified a bit by going straight to a real floppy rather than through the vn device, if you can accept the size limitation.