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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to build kernel for the boot floppy
Date: 30 Jun 1995 10:57:25 +0200
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Olaf Manczak <olavi@zow.desy.de> wrote:
>I've tried to build my own kernel for the boot floppy of 2.0.5 but
>it fails to boot because it can't find init.
>
>What should I put into the configuration file ?
The original boot floppies use a gzipped kernel. I think you will
have to look at /usr/src/release/Makefile in order to know how to
generate this.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)