On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:18:16PM +0900, Boo Geum Jung wrote:
> > > Have a look at the floppy build process in /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/
> > > Basically you create a file of the required size with dd, attach it
> > > to a vnd with vndconfig, newfs and mount the vnd device and populate
> > > the filesystem.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> > I'm very sorry but I don't know well about i386/floppies.
> > And I need ramdisk booting not with floppies.
>
> This doesn't matter, boot floppies loads a kernel with a ramdisk. So this
> directory have what's needed to build the ramdisk.

For a simpler example, look at how mac68k builds a ramdisk. That may
be a little easier to follow, since there's no ustar packing, no
boot-blocks, and only one kernel. In other words, view the output of

    cd /usr/src/distrib/mac68k/instkernel && make -n

Frederick