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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Building Boot Disk Date: 3 Aug 1996 20:36:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4u0d89$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ttcm2$42k@rs1.dsi.uanl.mx> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E ardz@magna.bcms.uanl.mx (Arturo Eduardo Rodriguez Najera) wrote: > someone know how make boot disk??? i try with /usr/src/release Well, a _boot_ disk is easy: disklabel -Brw fd0 fd1440 newfs -t0 -u0 -l1 -i65536 /dev/rfd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt cp /kernel /mnt/kernel umount /mnt ... will give you a bootable disk. ;-) > make boot.flp Well, that's a longer story. You need an _installation_ disk. Sadly enought, up until recently, you were required to compile a complete release in order to rebuild the installation floppy. /usr/release was not intended as a tool for the casual user, it's just the area where the genuine FreeBSD releases are being cut from. > but' some headers files are missing :(((, anyone could help me? > i need add SCSII device in boot-jp.flp, Adaptec 27xxx :((( The ahc driver is included in the default kernels. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)