Subject: Re: How to create an install floppy?
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 07/18/2002 17:40:28
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:23:54AM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>
> bootfloppy-small needs netbsd.INSTALL_SMALL.gz, which is built from
> the INSTALL_SMALL/netbsd kernel that is mdsetimage-ed with the ramdisk
> from ramdisk-small.
>
> Try something like this:
> cd /usr/src/etc
> make snap_kern
> cd /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk-small
> make
> cd ../kernel-ramdisk
> make netbsd.INSTALL_SMALL.gz
> cd ../bootfloppy-small
> make
>
> This could be cleaned up (especially the snap_kern stuff). I hope to
> be able to work on this after the 1.6 release.
On a vaguely related note, in src/distrib/acorn32/stand/Makefile there is
${MDSETIMAGE} tmp/BtNetBSD/InstKern ${.OBJDIR}/../ramdisk/ramdisk.fs
What is the makefile magic needed to cope with obj dirs? That could end
up as ../../ramdisk/obj.acorn32/ramdisk.fs for example..
Cheers,
Patrick