Subject: Re: Can't create i386 installation floppies under -current
To: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/01/1996 18:23:11
Greg Earle writes:
> > The hacks to get this to work are fairly simple, but I'll point out a
> > larger problem -- INST kernels will NOT fit on the floppies any longer.
> 
> Zoiks!  As I mentioned, I was trying to do this so as to be able to boot a PC
> to test the Ethernet card, and the card is not supported in 1.1.  It's a
> somewhat moot point because the problem was solved (it was connected to an
> unpowered 4-port Ethernet switchbox and wasn't driving it power-wise), but it
> would be nice to be able to cook up -current floppies to give to someone to
> install with (or to use yourself on another system).  What's a mother to do?

I will try to get the install floppies working again in the next day
or so modulo the kernel size issue. What you will have to do is build
a custom kernel and load it by hand onto the install floppy.

Hopefully in a few weeks we are going to have a new compressed boot
system working -- I need to get spare cycles to finish it, though.

.pm