Subject: Re: How to make a boot floppy
To: None <grunza@ulticom.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/1999 17:04:05
Steven Grunza wrote:
> 
> What is the magic incantation to take a netbsd kernel and put it on a
> floppy disk such that the floppy disk is bootable?  I've been reading
> the FAQ's and man pages and trying various combinations of disklabel,
> fdformat, and installboot but haven't had any success yet.  I'm using
> various versions of NetBSD-i386 but mostly 1.4 and 1.4.1

Off top of head (so please check)

fdformat
newfs -T floppy /dev/rfd0a
/usr/mdec/installboot -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a
mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
cd /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
gzip -9 netbsd
cp netbsd.gz /mnt
umount /mnt


Cheers,

Patrick