Subject: Re: Extracting a kernel from a floppy?
To: Yubyub bird <jonl@yubyub.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/07/2000 21:16:31
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 02:48:24PM -0400, Yubyub bird wrote:
> Is it possible to extract the kernel used to boot the sysinst set from
> floppy?  I've a custom sysinst floppy boot set, and I want to take the
> included kernel and boot it regularly (i.e. off my scsi disk) until I can
> get a real compiled kernel.
> 
> Any tips or ideas would be muchly appreciated.

Floppies uses the ustarfs format; I'm not sure how to extract this.
Maybe with tar ?
However this kernel includes a ramdisk so you'll still have to use boot -a
to boot from the scsi disk.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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