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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!chenab.lums.edu.pk!chenab.lums.edu.pk!not-for-mail From: aslam@lums.edu.pk (Sohail Aslam) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: replacing the kernel on the boot floppy - how? Date: 9 Jan 1997 08:56:04 +0500 Organization: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5b1q8k$109v@chenab.lums.edu.pk> NNTP-Posting-Host: chenab.lums.edu.pk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33867 We have purchased SMC EtherPower 10/100 cards. Matt Thomas (matt@3am-software.com) was gracious enough to send a new de driver for the DEC 21140-AC chip contained in the card. In order to get the new driver into the kernel, I had to install an SMC Ultra ethernet card in my pentium box, install FreeBSD over the net (local ftp), copy the new driver into /usr/src/sys/pci, build a new kernel, and use it with the new 10/100 card. I need install FreeBSD on 4 other machines that also have the new EtherPower 10/100 card. How can I replace the kernel on the boot floppy with the kernel that has the new driver? I am using 2.2Beta. [I suspect it is a simple matter of compressing the kernel (gzip) and replacing the one on the floppy.] -- Sohail Aslam Department of Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Lahore, Pakistan tel: 92-42-572-2670 fax: 92-42-572-2591 email: aslam@lums.edu.pk