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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!news.camtech.com.au!news.adelaide.on.net!news.ade.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!chiuk@cs.indiana.edu From: "Kenneth Chiu" <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: So, I'd like to make a boot/install floppy Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:39:41 -0500 (EST) Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5214@846948311> References: <327AB423.41C67EA6@itdl.telecall.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: numbfish.cs.indiana.edu In article <327AB423.41C67EA6@itdl.telecall.co.uk>, Steve Roome <steve@itdl.telecall.co.uk> wrote: >Okay, let's say I change some of my kernel, perhaps so that >nothing more changes than the output shown by a hardware probe. > >Is there any way for me to put this on a boot floppy ? >(well, actually an install floppy, either really, would just >like to know if it's going to work at all ??) Yes, but it's somewhat tedious unless you have everything setup the way they have it setup when they make a release. Look at the makefile in src/release. Basically, you need to build a crunched binary, then build a root filesystem with it, then build a kernel to hold this filesystem, then put the root filesystem in the kernel, then build anoter filesystem to hold this kernel.