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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: make boot.flp Explodes
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 21:55:32 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Test wrote:
> 
> I have been having trouble now for 5 days trying to get the stock
> boot.flp make file to compile under FreeBSD 2.2.1 with absolutely no
> luck.

As I told this guy in email - you can't get there from here.  You need
to make boot floppies as part of the entire release, e.g. a "make
release".
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.