Building a boot floppy?
Zen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep |
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'morning guys, Nonaka or somebody else can enlighten me on building a boot floppy for the prep? Much time ago I was pointed to a floppy image with a working boot/install floppy for the 43P (7043), and the kernel was 1.6A. I CVS'd to -current now, and compiled my kernel, but before screwing the whole system I wanted to put kernel on a floppy and trying boot from there first. Many pages[1] mention to build an ffs FS on a floppy, but I had no luck trying to mount the one that works, so I am encouraged to think I'm missing something. The floppy image that works (thanks Nonaka) is a floppy.rs6k: x86 boot sector, extended partition table (nonaka@koharu:/usr/src/sys/arch/prep/compile/NATSUMI) As a side note, I just wanted to thank the netbsd/prep project people: after installing it, my Rs/6000 has _never_ been rebooted and provides mailinglist services to ~200 people with 64mb of ram... This forced me to scratch linux from my smp ss20 and put netbsd on it. [1] like http://www.cynic.net/~cjs/computer/netbsd/makebootfloppy.html thanks everybody, -- My home isn't cluttered; it's "passage restrictive." [email protected] . Geek . And proud of it . http://www.kill-9.it/jargon/html/entry/zen.html