Re: 7248: making progress

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:57:05AM +0100, Jochen Kunz
wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:57:09 -0500 Sam Carleton
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > That was it!  It does appear that there si something
> > wrong with the 1.6.1 floppy.  Now my next problem...
> Not only the floppy. I had this problem with a self
> compiled kernel.  Grmbl. Maybe I can free some time to
> debug this.

Once I get up and running, I would be willing to look into
it also, though the only thing I have going for me is a
solid understanding of C.  My Unix and kernel knowledge is
limited to that of a user:)
 
> > I am trying to create the the inital partition for the
> > boot code. 
> You can create this partition by writing the generic.fs
> floppy image to the raw disk. This makes your disk
> bootable. Then invoke fdisk on the disk. You will see
> the boot partition. Create a new partition that starts
> behind the boot partition and reaches to the end of the
> disk.  Make this partition of type NetBSD.
 
So are you saying that before I follow step 2 of "7248
Install success!", I need to copy the generic.fs to the
raw disk, raw without any type of partition.  Yes?  How
does one do that?

Sam