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Since we don't have rfd0 anymore, put in a line that will actually work

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for generating floppies.

Mention mdconfig(8) instead of vnconfig(8).
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Daniel C. Sobral 2001-02-22 07:34:53 +00:00
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@ -20,12 +20,10 @@ Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and kern.flp into a directory
somewhere. You would do the same for mfsroot.flp, of course.
If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find
that:
that one of the following:
dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0
dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0
or
dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/floppy
work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
@ -54,6 +52,6 @@ hardware arise. As long as the kernel is compiled with
and boot an mfsroot.flp image in memory when run (see how the
/boot/loader.rc file in kern.flp does its thing). The mfsroot.flp
image is also just a gzip'd filesystem image which is used as root,
something which can be made rather easily using vnconfig(8).
something which can be made rather easily using mdconfig(8).
If none of that makes any sense to you then don't worry about it -
just use the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images as described above.