Subject: RE: How to make new boot floppy
To: None <root@garbled.net>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/09/1998 14:57:55
> On 03-Dec-98 Charlie ROOT spoke unto us all:
> #  I'm guessing that I also have to somehow get my new
> #  customized INSTALL kernel stuffed into the boot.fs image on
> #  the install floppy.  But I have no idea how to do that.
>
> Ahh.. its quite simple actually,
>
> cd /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies
> make
>
> this procedure assumes that you have a kernel sitting in
> sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL/

Well, to have that succeed, you'd (in -current) have to have both
INSTALL, INSTALL_SMALL and INSTALL_TINY kernels lying around in
their respective compile directories.  Besides, you'd have to
trim INSTALL_SMALL since it recently overflowed the space on a
single floppy (even though I gzip -9'ed on my last try).

If you only want to put the INSTALL kernel with a ramdisk on a
floppy, do "make" in floppies/ramdisk and subsequently in
floppies/bootfloppy, and the result will be a file called
"boot.fs" which is ready to dd to a diskette.

- H=E5vard