Subject: RE: Creating an SRM bootable floppy...
To: 'Andrey Petrov' <and@genesyslab.com>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/21/2001 14:22:46
Cool. Thanks...

---   David A Woyciesjes
---   C & IS Support Specialist
---   Yale University Press
---   mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Andrey Petrov [mailto:and@genesyslab.com]
-> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:54 PM
-> To: David Woyciesjes
-> Cc: 'port-alpha@netbsd.org'
-> Subject: Re: Creating an SRM bootable floppy...
-> 
-> 
-> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:29:20AM -0500, David Woyciesjes wrote:
-> > 	I think I have this right, came someone clarify this 
-> for me? Or tell
-> > me where the instructions are?
-> > To create an SRM bootable floppy, 
-> > 
-> > 1. use disklabel to partition the disk
-> > 	-> ( have to find out how, exactly)
-> 
-> I don't know if disklabel is needed for floppy
-> 
-> But this one you miss
-> 
-> 1' create file system
-> 
-> newfs /dev/rfd0a
-> 
-> 
-> > 
-> > 2. mount the file system
-> > 	->mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
-> > 
-> > 3. install the bootstrap programs
-> > 	-> cd /usr/mdec
-> > 	-> cp boot /mnt
-> > 	-> ./installboot /dev/rfd0c bootxx_ffs
-> > 
-> > 4. copy the kernel to the floppy
-> > 	-> cp netbsd /mnt/netbsd
-> > 
-> > ...right?
-> > 
-> > ---   David A Woyciesjes
-> > ---   C & IS Support Specialist
-> > ---   Yale University Press
-> > ---   mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
-> > ---   (203) 432-0953
-> > ---   ICQ # - 905818
-> > 
-> > 
-> 	Andrey
->