Subject: Re: Custom install disks & Changeing IO/IRQs
To: Wayne Cuddy <wcuddy@crb-web.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/11/2001 18:08:30
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:31:24PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> [...]
> Which brings me to my second question...
> 
> I figured I would build a new kernel on my other NetBSD box with the correct
> IO/IRQ settings so I could install on the old box...  However I was unable to
> mount the boot floppies provided on the NetBSD 1.5.2 CD.  It could not be done
> with either the "real" floppy device or trying to configure the boot?.fs files
> using the 'vnconfig' command.  I figure this is because the floppies have a
> 2.88M floppy image on them.

No, it because the boot floppies use the ustarfs format, not ffs.

> 
> So is there documentation or tutorials on how to build custom installation
> floppy?

The build system for boot floppies is in src/distrib/i386/floppies
There may be some docs on the www site.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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