> From port-alpha-owner-ross=teraflop.com@NetBSD.ORG Mon May 11 12:50:43 1998
> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:54:11 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Paul H. Anderson" <pha@pdq.com>
> To: David Seifert <seifert@sequent.com>
> cc: port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: boot floppy.
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> On Mon, 11 May 1998, David Seifert wrote:
> 
> > > Since the floppy drive isn't support, what's the process
> > > for building a boot floppy?  
> > 
> > dd the image to a known offset in a spare partition,
> > boot Linux, dd it to the floppy.

Or, just use "dd bs=18k if=x of=/dev/rfd0a" on some other unix box that has a
floppy.

> 
> We'd like to put a compressed kernel onto a 1.44MB floppy, and boot from
> it (because we are using adaptec controllers, and can't boot from them via
> the SRM, as far as I know).  How do we build the boot floppy image?  Once
> we get the bits, we can get them to a floppy...
> 
> Paul
> 
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> | Paul Anderson           Public Data Queries, Inc.    |
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> 

You can do it by hand, using vnconfig(8) and the usual "disklabel,
newfs, installboot" sequence, or you can see:

	/usr/src/distrib/alpha/floppy/

for an automated example.

Ross