Subject: Re: How to make a boot floppy
To: Steven Grunza <grunza@ulticom.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/1999 12:57:34
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Steven Grunza wrote:

> What is the magic incantation to take a netbsd kernel and put it on a
> floppy disk such that the floppy disk is bootable?  I've been reading
> the FAQ's and man pages and trying various combinations of disklabel,
> fdformat, and installboot but haven't had any success yet.  I'm using
> various versions of NetBSD-i386 but mostly 1.4 and 1.4.1

Check out /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies. That area contains all of the
code to build distribution floppies. It will build the ramdisk kernels
needed by install kernels, and it will also make bootable floppies.

Take care,

Bill