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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!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: howto creat a boot floppy w/ network support Date: 17 Aug 1996 12:35:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4v4e9o$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ulfDw71ow.4Mt@netcom.com> 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-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 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 ulf@netcom.com (Ulf Schmidt) wrote: > now that I sucessfully installed 2.1.5R, I want to create a boot > floppy w/ as much system information as possible. Some binaries > like tar and gzip would be good, and network support also. You can use the installation floppy plus fixit floppy duo, it should get you on your way. If you prefer, you can also prepare a separate UFS floppy, with just the file /kernel on it (this may be a customized kernel then), and once the kernel has been loaded, you swap floppies and insert a root file system floppy with everything you think should be there. The least files you need are /sbin/init, /bin/sh, /dev/console, and (i think) an empty /etc/spwd.db to prevent complaints. Everything else is up to you. The crunchgen program should be a big help for you in creating a binary with much stuff in it for a good bang per byte ratio. Have a look at /usr/src/release/Makefile for how to use crunchgen. -- 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. ;-)